Tyler Perry Quotes

That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

I'm living in Hollywood, and I'm making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better.

It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

I wanna be be able to take care of my mom.

As long as you have a job, I'm providing for my family, I'm blessed and you move forward.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

WWE has given me everything; it really has. My kids will go to college because of them, I don't have to worry about finances because of them.

I'm not one of the guys in the league for the fame. I'm here so I can take of my family, my mom, my friends and take care of myself.

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.

I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

For me, being successful meant not having to do my laundry at a laundromat and not having a second job.

I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.