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" I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood. "

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" I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing. "

Tyler Perry

Falling

Trying

Been

" 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. "

" Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do. "

" If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith. "

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

Tyler Perry

Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. "

" I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well. "

" Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help. "

" It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. "

" When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no. "

" What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one. "

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

Tyler Perry

Strong

She

" It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. "

" 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. "

" My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?' "

" If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do. "

" 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'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. "

" 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. "

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

Tyler Perry

Crap

Hollywood

" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "

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

Tyler Perry

She

Amazing

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

" I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection. "

" I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food. "