American - Actor | September 14, 1969 - September 13, 1969
I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing.
Tyler Perry
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I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
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You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
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When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
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If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.
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Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those.
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I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
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What I've learned is you treat women right.
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My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.
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I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
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I don't have a writer's room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I'm sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.
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What I've 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 I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
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