I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that...
I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
I know my audience, and they’re not people that the studios know anything about.
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I’m sorry, I’m still on the last caller.
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.
Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.
All my life I’ve tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.
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.
Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.
There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
Statistics say that I’m supposed to be in jail. And I’m not supposed to be alive.
Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.
Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.
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.
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.
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.
He who has the gold makes the rules.