Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry is an American actor, producer, director, screenwriter, playwright, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth13 September 1969
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I know I can only do as much as I can do. Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.
Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's a fascinating hobby.
What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.
I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.
I'm very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I'm all for the underdog, so I'd like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.
I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.
I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.
I feel like I died as a child.
I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.
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.
I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.
I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean?