Quotes by Tyler Perry

It doesnt matter if a million people tell you what you cant do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God thats all you need.

You can get a thousand nos from people, and only one yes from God.

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. Thats 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 friend Madea has attitude that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didnt get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, weve run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

What Ive found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until youre blue in the face--theyre never going to get it and theyre never going to change. But every once in a while, youll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.

It aint what people call you. Its what you answer to.

Its 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 didnt have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us dont, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

Everybodys got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, youve got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closets aint full of them. Its not good to have more than two or three.

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

In that day, we didnt have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

I dont think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there arent a lot who get to see them realized.

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether youre a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

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.

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

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything Im doing, God is pleased with that. Its complete peace for me.

Im not sure why no one wants to admit theres 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.

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.