Tyler Perry

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing.

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.

I try to write from a point of view with my faith being always present and always there. don't want to write characters where everyone is saved. So this Madea character for me is not saved.

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

Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.

We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean?

I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

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.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

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.