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My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this lif...

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What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face-...

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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we...

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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, an...

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The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot o...

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I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference betwe...

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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...

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If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, f...

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Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or ...

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

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

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If ...

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

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm n...

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It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful plac...

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I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day l...

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

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the p...

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Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased w...

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Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be heal...

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Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

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There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see t...

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What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use...

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The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when yo...

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It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and ...

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What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you...

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I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgiv...

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Tyler Perry

Actor

Born: 1969-09-13

Died: N/A

Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry, Jr. on September 13, 1969) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author and songwriter, specializing in the Gospel genre. Perry is best known for both creating and performing in drag the Madea character, a giant, overreactive, and thuggishly tough elderly woman.More