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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. "

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

" I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do. "

" I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers. "

" I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety. "

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

" 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. "

" The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules. "

" I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels. "

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

" Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up. "

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

" I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. "

" I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a social media person; I don't know what's going on unless somebody tells me. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized. "

" 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 definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing. "

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

" 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'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work. "

" Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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