Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title. -Tyler Perry Travel
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. -Tyler Perry Forgiveness
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work. -Tyler Perry Work
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. -Tyler Perry Learning
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. -Tyler Perry Wisdom
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. -Tyler Perry Work
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up. -Tyler Perry Movies
The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child. -Tyler Perry Forgiveness
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. -Tyler Perry Positive
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not. -Tyler Perry Family
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life. -Tyler Perry Good
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. -Tyler Perry Peace
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. -Tyler Perry Forgiveness
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. -Tyler Perry Happiness
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now. -Tyler Perry Faith
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. -Tyler Perry God
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. -Tyler Perry Forgiveness
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. -Tyler Perry Power
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them. -Tyler Perry Forgiveness
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work. -Tyler Perry Success
