Tyler Perry quotes

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

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.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

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

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.

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.

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

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

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

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

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

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.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

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.

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith.

My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

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

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