Tyler Perry Quotes

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 have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

It’s a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accomplished so much with the network, and I’m excited to work with her to be a part of its continued growth.

You don’t try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That’s Morgan Freeman!

I definitely do not like Halloween. I don’t like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They’re not just my thing.

I don’t want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.

I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, ‘God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.’ I was able to do that ’til the day she died because of my audience.

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.

I think it’s important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don’t see that anymore.

When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can’t eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don’t taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no.

I’ve been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it’s been a great journey.

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.

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

I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn’t.