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" 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. "

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" There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story. "

Tyler Perry

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You

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" I love to give. I've been a giver all my life. "

" 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. "

Tyler Perry

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Doing

" I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. "

Tyler Perry

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People

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

Tyler Perry

Love

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Tyler Perry

Myself

Writing

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

Tyler Perry

You

Simple

" 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. "

" As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about. "

Tyler Perry

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Through

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

Tyler Perry

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" Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their 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! "

" What I've learned is you treat women right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "