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.

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

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.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.