I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

- Tyler Perry

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

- Tyler Perry

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

- Tyler Perry

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

- Tyler Perry

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

- Tyler Perry

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

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

- Tyler Perry

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

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

- Tyler Perry

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

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

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

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

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

- Tyler Perry

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

- Tyler Perry

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.

- 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.

- Tyler Perry

I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.

- Tyler Perry

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

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

- Tyler Perry