299 Quotes by Tyler Perry

It ain’t what people call you. It’s what you answer to.

You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you’ll avoid stretch marks and I’ll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something.

It’s most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I’m putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don’t feel like it’s dressing in drag.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don’t have anything, you can be happy where you are.

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, “Could this happen to me? I know I’m being tempted.”

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they’re schizophrenic – as if I don’t know that!

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that’s where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.

If you don’t want my God here, you don’t want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.