A biography for Tyler Perryhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.”
“You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”
“He who has the gold makes the rules.”
“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.”
“Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.”
“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.”
“In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge P&A. You have to have huge budgets for the show. I'm pretty confident that the budget of 'Empire' is six times what I'm spending on 'Have And Have Nots.'”
“I'm not a social media person; I don't know what's going on unless somebody tells me.”
“I don't want to leave this planet until I achieve everything that I was put here to do.”
“I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.”
“The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.”
“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.”
“'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.”
“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.”
“...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.”
“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?'”
“My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.”
“What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.”
“What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.”
“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.”