The best Quotes by Tyler Perry

The best Quotes by Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr., September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the creator and performer of Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her nephew Brian Simmons.

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.

Forgiveness & Mercy

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.

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

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

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.

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Bam: "If I could, I would've folded myself up in there for you as your gift."
Joe: "Bam. You couldn't fold yourself up in a pickup truck."

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

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Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

Children are gonna live their own lives whether we want them to or not.

A Madea Homecoming

I'll give you a lesson in life. In the morning, the sun will rise, and if it don't, you have died.

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

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Rosa Parks is a whole entire Civil Rights hero. She's a shero.

A Madea Homecoming

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A future isn't a future without a past.

A Madea Homecoming

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Tim: "How you doin'?"
Joe: "Uh, fair to middlin'. Nuts don't work, but they still trying. They'll crank out a little now and then to make her happy."
Tim: "Okay... uh, I didn't need to know that."

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

What you batting your eyes and fixing your hair for? Bam, you barking up the wrong trees.

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

Never let your girlfriend and your man hang out too often!

A Madea Homecoming

I didn't make it rain, but I sure made it drizzle.

A Madea Homecoming

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Get your hand away! You ain't heard of COVID-1920?

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

Just like an apple trying to get through the eye of a needle.

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

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I wish I was a mirror, so I can see myself inside of you.

Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming

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For too long, government bureaucracies have hindered the growth of businesses not only in Louisiana, but all across the United States.

Mike Johnson

How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.

Alabama Mississippi Louisiana

What's the loneliest place in all of Louisiana?
Bayou Self

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

Donna Brazile

Black bandana, sweet Louisiana
Robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
On her merry way sayin', 'Baby, what you gonna- ?'
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal .45
Just another way to survive

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California, Album: Stadium Arcadium

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Louisiana Indiana

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Louisiana - and that's pretty much the same thing.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Forgiveness & Mercy

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

John Green in Looking for Alaska

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Forgiveness & Mercy

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

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Laughing & Smile

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

1

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

1

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

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Thinking Feelings & Emotions

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

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Failures & Mistakes

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

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The Kardashians

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

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Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

Paul Walker

Indonesia Helping

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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