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Tyler Perry Quotes

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 14, 1969 - September 13, 1969

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Mother Short Out Southern Dear Lot

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

World Laugh Need Hard Comedies

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

Science History Time Youth Outdoors

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Woman People Me Law Free Black

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Positive People Capitalism Now Right

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

Style Story More Seek Get Older

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

Dress Small Colorful Urban Commerce

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

History Imagination School Me World

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

Challenge Excellence Me Challenges

The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.

Life People Win Chance Enough Lose

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Women Men Green You House Hide

If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.

Mary Steenburgen

Family Problem Addiction Solving

My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!

Favorite Them Episode Stargate Lewis

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