A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

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...

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

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

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys