Tyler Perry Quotes

• Once you’re truly happy with yourself alone, that’s when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in God, Inspirational

• It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in God

  Tags in People

• You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in People

• What I’ve learned is you treat women right.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Womens Rights

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

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spend

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Faith

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Entertainment, Demand

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journey, Forgive

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood

• If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in God, Money

• I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Chase

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Respect, Work

  Tags in Right

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in God

  Tags in Admit, Audience

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Myself

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Poor, Survive

• I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People

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

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Audience

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Pain, Forgive, Happiness

• 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.

  Tyler Perry

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Hollywood

Tyler Perry (22)

Birth:	13th September, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Lyricist, Playwriter, Producer, Screenwriter

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