Tyler Perry Quotations

My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?'

You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!

My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.

I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

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.

I've been doing television with TBS for quite some time, and it's been a great journey.

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.