299 Quotes by Tyler Perry

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.

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.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

The important thing for me is, and what I'd like people to know is that, one particular genre does not make it whole. There are many, many different genres and if you ever gave it an opportunity open mindedly, I think you'd find some pretty interesting things there.

Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.