Top 120 Tyler Perry Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.”

— Tyler Perry

52. “What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.”

— Tyler Perry

53. “I think we are born into what we’re supposed to learn and find out in this life.”

— Tyler Perry

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Tyler Perry

56. “You put some Vaseline under your eyes at night and under your chin, and you put a little bit on your chest and you’ll avoid stretch marks and I’ll get you some Vaseline, you can change your oil and fry chicken with it, too, but you best make sure you have something.”

— Tyler Perry

57. “Be modest and patient; allow your dream its own time to grow. Dreams need to be tended like crops before you can enjoy the harvest. And this is important: Don’t get hung up on the outcome. Hand that over to God. Remember, He’s the one at the wheel. Of course, I was afraid of failing, but I held on.”

— Tyler Perry

58. “I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it’s on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I’m supposed to write about.”

— Tyler Perry

59. “I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.”

— Tyler Perry

60. “For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.”

— Tyler Perry

61. “I haven’t had a worst business decision, because I believe all things work together for good.”

— Tyler Perry

62. “I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn’t there during that time, but that’s where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I’m very, very proud of that because it’s given me my history.”

— Tyler Perry

63. “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

64. “Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.”

— Tyler Perry

65. “There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that’s where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.”

— Tyler Perry

66. “I’ve been pretty transparent with all that I’ve done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don’t think there’s a particular thing I’d like them to know.”

— Tyler Perry

67. “I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it’s really great to be in that position.”

— Tyler Perry

68. “You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I’m putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don’t feel like it’s dressing in drag.”

— Tyler Perry

69. “I’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.”

— Tyler Perry

70. “My mother wasn’t strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.”

— Tyler Perry

71. “I know my audience, and they’re not people that the studios know anything about.”

— Tyler Perry

72. “I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I’m sorry, I’m still on the last caller.”

— Tyler Perry

73. “I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.”

— Tyler Perry

74. “You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better.”

— Tyler Perry

75. “Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!”

— Tyler Perry

76. “A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.”

— Tyler Perry

77. “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

78. “A hunter only shoots a deer he can see, if you ain’t being seen you ain’t doing nothing!”

— Tyler Perry

79. “Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there’s a bond that’s unbreakable.”

— Tyler Perry

80. “Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.”

— Tyler Perry

81. “If you are in business trying to make it, things are falling apart and you can’t get it together and you don’t know what is going on and you wanna stop. Don’t stop. The only way you can make it and have true success in your life. And there’s one way. You can’t have any fear.”

— Tyler Perry

82. “Flying radio-controlled airplanes is the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. Only God would give me a hobby where I’m looking up to the sky. It’s a fascinating hobby.”

— Tyler Perry

83. “My father who was there in the house, he wasn’t at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.”

— Tyler Perry

84. “Root People may be hard to find because they’re not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive.”

— Tyler Perry

85. “Heartbreak can make you hard! But don’t let it make you bitter.”

— Tyler Perry

86. “I’m very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I’m all for the underdog, so I’d like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.”

— Tyler Perry

87. “When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.”

— Tyler Perry

88. “There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.”

— Tyler Perry

89. “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

90. “Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.”

— Tyler Perry

91. “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

92. “I know I can only do as much as I can do. Although I have so many ideas of my own, I’m very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.”

— Tyler Perry

93. “I didn’t have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don’t, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.”

— Tyler Perry

94. “I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything’s solved, and it’s great and wonderful. You’re a perfect human being.”

— Tyler Perry

95. “If you’re black, you can’t just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.”

— Tyler Perry

96. “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.”

— Tyler Perry

97. “God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.”

— Tyler Perry

98. “You need to know that you can’t honor God when you’re chained to the voice and opinions of man.”

— Tyler Perry

99. “I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that ’til the day she died because of my audience. So, they’ve already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.”

— Tyler Perry

100. “If you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.”

— Tyler Perry