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" What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one. "
Tyler Perry
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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. "
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" Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.' "
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" He who has the gold makes the rules. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard. "
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" You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in. "
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" 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. "
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" What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow. "
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" You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman! "
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" 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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" There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized. "
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" 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. "
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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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" As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about. "
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" I have very simple tastes. An ex-girlfriend used to tell me I have the palate of a kid because there are only five or six foods that I love. And if you rotate them on a regular basis, that's all I need to eat - like arugula, spinach, and grilled chicken. "
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" I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father. "
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" I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap. "
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" Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to. "
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" 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. "
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