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
It's 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 think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.
I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
...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.
If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've 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 closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".
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.
I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.