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" I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not. "

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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

People

I Am

Character

" I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio. "

" 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. "

" Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. "

" I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that! "

" You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman! "

" My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that. "

" Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day. "

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

Tyler Perry

She

Amazing

" The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me. "

Tyler Perry

Love

" I feel like I died as a child. "

Tyler Perry

I Feel

Child

" In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge P&A. You have to have huge budgets for the show. I'm pretty confident that the budget of 'Empire' is six times what I'm spending on 'Have And Have Nots.' "

" After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country. "

" 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. "

" It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I'm excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth. "

" Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up. "

" Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. "

" 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. "

Tyler Perry

Done

Think

" My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down. "

Tyler Perry

Life

Never

" 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. "

" I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement. "

" I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father's side used to make tea cakes, and her breakfasts were unbelievable. There was fresh ham, and she would go out to the yard to get fresh eggs. She lived in rural Louisiana, and we'd spend summers with her. "

" Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them. "

" All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it. "

" The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. "

" For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I've gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing. "

Tyler Perry

Time

Long

" I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older. "

" I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap. "

Tyler Perry

Crap

Hollywood

" I've been on 'Oprah' a dozen times, and cried once. "

" People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to. "