Quotes from Tyler Perry

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I've gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing.

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.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.

True love can come more than once.

When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no.

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.

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

There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn't get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that's pretty much my same story.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

we didn't have much, but we had love.

I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.

The idea of Christ's love for us all is inspiring to me.

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.

I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father's side used to make tea cakes, and her breakfasts were unbelievable. There was fresh ham, and she would go out to the yard to get fresh eggs. She lived in rural Louisiana, and we'd spend summers with her.

Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call her. We spoke every day.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You gotta be kiddin' me. If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either.

I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.