Quotes by Tyler Perry

About Tyler Perry:

Tyler Perry is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter, specializing in the gospel genre. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2011, Forbes named him the highest paid man in entertainment; he earned US$130 million between May 2010 and 2011.
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There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

Tyler Perry

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Tyler Perry

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

Tyler Perry

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

Tyler Perry

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.

Tyler Perry

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

Tyler Perry

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

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be...

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

I think every one of us, in life, have some sort of moment that has happened that we wish we could have done differently or that we wish could have had a different outcome.

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.

Tyler Perry

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

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.

Tyler Perry

Author Bio

  • NameTyler Perry
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
  • BornSeptember 13, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Playwright; Film Producer; Songwriter; Novelist; Television Director