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" I try to write from a point of view with my faith being always present and always there. don't want to write characters where everyone is saved. So this Madea character for me is not saved. "

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" The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child. "

" The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work. "

" My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now. "

" What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow. "

" Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive. "

" Having my son has changed so much of what I dream about. It used to be about business, business, what's the next deal? What's the next movie? Now it's about him. "

" Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title. "

" I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette. "

" I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore. "

" My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work. "

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" I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth. "

" Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet. "

" I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard. "

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" There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible. "

" I feel like I died as a child. "

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" I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that. "

" If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally. "

" As a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council, I recognize our mission to spread the word and rally the country in the fight to end hunger. "

" The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving. "

" I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't. "

" I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey. "

" Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman. "

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" My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through. "

" I haven't read a book in a very, very long time because, when I'm writing, I don't like to see other people's work. I don't want to see something great and not be able to use it, and I don't want to have any subconscious influences. "

" Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. "

" My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive. "

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" I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love. "

" I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome. "

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" I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about. "