Tyler Perry quote: "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."

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

I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the...
TYLER PERRY

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always &...
TYLER PERRY

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amo...
TYLER PERRY

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.
TYLER PERRY

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If ...
TYLER PERRY

Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm lo...
TYLER PERRY

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don&...
TYLER PERRY

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the p...
TYLER PERRY

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Ea...
TYLER PERRY

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

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor...
TYLER PERRY

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...
TYLER PERRY

I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or w...
TYLER PERRY

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

Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice a...
TYLER PERRY

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. Yo...
TYLER PERRY

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is...
TYLER PERRY

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of ...
TYLER PERRY

There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on ...
TYLER PERRY

When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fish...
TYLER PERRY

If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyon...
TYLER PERRY

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

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to sp...
TYLER PERRY

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

It's schizophrenic – that's how I describe it.
TYLER PERRY

I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it sinc...
TYLER PERRY

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of p...
TYLER PERRY

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face-...
TYLER PERRY

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you...
TYLER PERRY

I'm really happy for the loyalty and continued support of my fans.
TYLER PERRY

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day l...
TYLER PERRY

I have very simple tastes. An ex-girlfriend used to tell me I have the palate of a kid because there...
TYLER PERRY

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleas...
TYLER PERRY

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company,...
TYLER PERRY

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's...
TYLER PERRY

It's a dream realized to partner with Oprah and bring scripted programming to OWN. She has accom...
TYLER PERRY

Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g...
TYLER PERRY

I love a good breakfast - grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father...
TYLER PERRY

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this lif...
TYLER PERRY

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
TYLER PERRY

Seven years after my mother's passing, I still reach for the phone for a split second to call he...
TYLER PERRY

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be heal...
TYLER PERRY

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi...
TYLER PERRY

It's schizophrenic that's how I describe it.
TYLER PERRY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
AISHA TYLER

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!
AISHA TYLER

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skii...
TYLER HAMILTON

I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER

We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from th...
TYLER COWEN

Gemini is a spot bitcoin exchange. To use it, you sign up with Gemini.com and undergo the initial st...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS

We see bitcoin as potentially the greatest social network of all.
TYLER WINKLEVOSS

We dealt with a lot of skepticism early on, when we first spoke about bitcoin.
TYLER WINKLEVOSS

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.&#...
TYLER JOSEPH

I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends...
TYLER OAKLEY

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
AISHA TYLER

What am I wearing? Hmmm, I'd love to tell you something slinky and sexy, but usually it's an old T-s...
AISHA TYLER

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amus...
AISHA TYLER

Do you have any idea what it's like when you try and make home porn? My husband and I tried it. We l...
AISHA TYLER

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clot...
AISHA TYLER

[Anyone can do that, adds] Ghost Whisperer ... There's a part of every person that is entertained by...
AISHA TYLER

[Anyone can do that, said] Ghost Whisperer ... There's a part of every person that is entertained by...
AISHA TYLER

She's got that life where you're able to pick your husband and pick your baby time, so good for her.
AISHA TYLER

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is ente...
AISHA TYLER

You, too, could easily look like that if you had a squad of mad geeks fussing over you with retouchi...
AISHA TYLER

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm hap...
LIV TYLER

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-schoo...
AISHA TYLER

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.
AISHA TYLER

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski t...
TYLER HAMILTON

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the s...
WILLIE TYLER

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
STEVEN TYLER

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
ANNE TYLER

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that m...
AISHA TYLER

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship wil...
JOHN TYLER

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even thoug...
LIV TYLER

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'...
TYLER JOSEPH

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and ...
JOHN TYLER

Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless weal...
JOHN TYLER

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent;...
TYLER OAKLEY

In 2016, one of the things I really hope to do is discover new talent and help develop it. Take what...
TYLER OAKLEY

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly...
TYLER OAKLEY

I was in high school and I had an independent album out, and we kept sending that out, and I was doi...
TYLER HILTON

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b...
STEVEN TYLER

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambiv...
AISHA TYLER

The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.
TYLER WINKLEVOSS

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize...
TYLER COWEN

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action fil...
AISHA TYLER

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
JOHN TYLER

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I mino...
AISHA TYLER

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining i...
ANNE TYLER

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and fin...
JOHN TYLER

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't...
BONNIE TYLER

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There&...
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.
BONNIE TYLER

Thank God for Botox.
BONNIE TYLER

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people ...
BONNIE TYLER

I've been successful, but I haven't had any unwanted attention. To be honest, I've never...
BONNIE TYLER

I don't do every song that comes my way; I'm very choosy.
BONNIE TYLER

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rat...
BONNIE TYLER

I'm always late to bed - usually after midnight - but then I sleep for around ten hours.
BONNIE TYLER

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren...
BONNIE TYLER

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren&...
BONNIE TYLER

I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Gra...
BONNIE TYLER

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon...
BONNIE TYLER

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all ov...
BONNIE TYLER

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
BONNIE TYLER

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
BONNIE TYLER

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.
BONNIE TYLER

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me a...
BONNIE TYLER

Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excite...
BONNIE TYLER

I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.
BONNIE TYLER

I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, a...
BONNIE TYLER

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get moti...
BONNIE TYLER

I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.
LIV TYLER

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second li...
STEVEN TYLER

My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ...
STEVEN TYLER

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many char...
BONNIE TYLER

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them ...
ANNE TYLER

As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.
TYLER BLACKBURN

I'm, like, a binge gamer.
AISHA TYLER

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER

The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this ...
JOHN TYLER

A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should b...
JOHN TYLER

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.
STEVEN TYLER

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving ...
BONNIE TYLER

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
AISHA TYLER

Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a h...
TYLER COWEN

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
JOHN TYLER

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.
STEVEN TYLER

I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.
AISHA TYLER

I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be t...
JOHN TYLER

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these yo...
AISHA TYLER

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
AISHA TYLER

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool ...
AISHA TYLER

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality,...
TYLER COWEN

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
AISHA TYLER

Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is ...
TYLER FLORENCE

Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. B...
TYLER JOSEPH

It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit t...
JOHN TYLER

These 10 pieces will give her outfits she can mix and match. In fact, she can create 20 to 27 differ...
BARBARA TYLER

We want to keep the children safe. We are not there all the time, so we don't know everything that g...
BARBARA TYLER

We have been lucky, the only accidents that have been reported were minor. It has been typical accid...
BARBARA TYLER

To help insure the children's safety, we need the parents to make sure that the child has all his or...
BARBARA TYLER

We have a lot of great kids that come skate at the park. I know safety won't be a problem, but just ...
BARBARA TYLER

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
ANNE TYLER

II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them...
ANNE TYLER

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? ...
ANNE TYLER

She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing thi...
ANNE TYLER

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life -- mother...
ANNE TYLER

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the mo...
ANNE TYLER

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the m...
ANNE TYLER

I always think about the fact that PewDiePie, who has tens of millions of followers, started with ze...
TYLER OAKLEY

The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your AT...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS

Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, n...
AISHA TYLER

Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sa...
TYLER COWEN

A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off...
JOHN TYLER

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call ...
TYLER COWEN

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value...
TYLER COWEN

I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I...
TYLER FLORENCE

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
ANNE TYLER

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important ...
TYLER COWEN

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $...
AISHA TYLER

I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Gala...
AISHA TYLER

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the m...
JOHN TYLER

When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and ...
TYLER OAKLEY

The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the ...
JOHN TYLER

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and art...
TYLER COWEN

There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downsta...
TYLER JOSEPH

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
STEVEN TYLER

In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of class...
TYLER OAKLEY

I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this...
AISHA TYLER

Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees u...
TYLER JOSEPH

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, ot...
ANNE TYLER

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: ...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS

In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from ...
TYLER COWEN

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the ex...
JOHN TYLER

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up...
TYLER HAMILTON

I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everyth...
AISHA TYLER

Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
AISHA TYLER

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ...
JOHN TYLER

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
TYLER OAKLEY

I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.
AISHA TYLER

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or ...
TYLER FLORENCE

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were fr...
BONNIE TYLER

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find ama...
TYLER FLORENCE

As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you ma...
STEVEN TYLER

If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cy...
TYLER HAMILTON

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
ANNE TYLER

That was normal public opinion, ... He was not abnormal.
BRUCE TYLER

It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major...
BRUCE TYLER

Birth of a Nation.
BRUCE TYLER

He's too close - he lived well into the 20th Century, ... If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presid...
BRUCE TYLER

I think that was his humanity coming through, ... That he wanted this naturally without a lot of for...
BRUCE TYLER

But that was the general view of the times, north and south, ... He was not unusual in that view. Th...
BRUCE TYLER

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many...
TYLER COWEN

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.

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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.

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