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 long and get positive reinforcement.

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

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.