Quotes by Tyler Perry

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. Im not sure what took them so long to see that or how long theyll keep it up.

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 dont know where I would be right now.

I dont know about marriage as much as I do know that Id be a great father.

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.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every familys got them.

If you look at everything I do - even in Boo! theres a message, and its always faith, family, forgiveness. Thats the greatest gift that Ive been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Ive never chased money. Its always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

What Ive 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 Ive found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

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