Tyler Perry Quotes

I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.

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.

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

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.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

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

Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.

I'm good at giving up control to people who know where they're going and what they want to do. I can sit in the back of a car and ride cross-country if you know where you're going and you know how to take me there.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

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!

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

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.

You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.

I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

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

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

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.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

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

I realized that here's a moment for me to learn so until I learn and understand more about how types of films are done - action, sci-fi - even though I have a desire to do it, I won't go into it until I'm very clear that I can do it and that moment hasn't come yet. Maybe one day I will ready, but for now, I just enjoyed playing the character.

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.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

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.

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.

True love can come more than once.

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.