Zitat des Tages von Tyler Perry:
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.
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.
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.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'
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.
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.
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.
I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.
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.
I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
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.
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.
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.
My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that.
I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.
Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those.
I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.
Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
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.
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
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.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels.
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 key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.
I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.
