Tyler Perry Quotes

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.