TYLER PERRY

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.

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

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.

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.

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

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

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.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

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.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

I feel like I died as a child.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.

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

He who has the gold makes the rules.

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.

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.