Tyler Perry said ( about In The ) : “In one of the scenes, it was very emotional for her [Crystal],”

eurweb Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:24:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry responded : “I think hair is very, very important, but figure that sh*t out before we go on camera is my whole thing,” “As long as y’all figured it out before it’s time to shoot, I’m good. I don’t got time to waste five hours and spend spending $10 million to figure out which curl is better for you”

eurweb Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:24:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry wrote : “My heart breaks today at the death of my dear friend,”

eurweb Friday, January 24, 2020 9:48:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “While it takes people in Hollywood seven days to shoot one episode of a primetime drama, we shoot two in six to seven days,”

independent-UK Wednesday, January 22, 2020 1:44:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry says : “I love how somebody can pick up on those things,” “But that wasn’t my intention. Maybe that was the intention of my art director. This film has a lot of characters living dual lives. I was just trying to tell a story”

houstonchronicle Friday, January 17, 2020 10:16:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “As I’m writing, I’m really a fly on the wall, listening to the characters and letting them tell me their experience. I’m not judging them,”

suntimes Friday, January 17, 2020 3:06:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “And I want to invite every white person to see it,” “Be open-minded. Don’t automatically assume it’s one thing because it’s an all-black cast. It’s a thrill ride for everyone”

suntimes Friday, January 17, 2020 3:06:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry : “I think that a group would be great, but if you wanna watch it alone, you can. You just may have to cover your eyes toward the end, but yeah”

wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry : “I’ve done 20 movies, and I’ve been proud of everything I’ve done, but to have someone like this, who has been in this business all these years and now getting her shot, and has a billboard with her face in Times Square, man, that makes me so proud”

wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry : “That’s it. Remember your worth. Even if you start dating someone new, remember your worth”

wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry tells : “TBS isn’t paying me the money upfront — I’m financing these shows myself. I’m not Sony, I’m not Disney; I need to work out a deal for pay rates,”

eurweb Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:20:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry explains : “I’m getting calls that I fired writers for trying to unionize. What? I came to the WGA on my own to try to work with them! I fired the writers because they weren’t giving me what I wanted. Period. It was a mess. The press says I fired writers who were trying to unionize. Not true, and it pissed me off,” “Later on, my mom got sick. So I put a writers’ room in place for one of my shows. Now we’re a WGA show and I’m paying WGA rates. Scripts they’re turning in? Ratings are going down. So now I have to go in and give notes on how to rewrite them. And if I still don’t like it, I have to pay them again for another rewrite,”

eurweb Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:20:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “TBS isn’t paying me the money upfront — I’m financing these shows myself. I’m not Sony, I’m not Disney; I need to work out a deal for pay rates,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I’m getting calls that I fired writers for trying to unionize. What? I came to the WGA on my own to try to work with them! I fired the writers because they weren’t giving me what I wanted. Period. It was a mess. The press says I fired writers who were trying to unionize. Not true, and it pissed me off,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “Later on, my mom got sick. So I put a writers’ room in place for one of my shows. Now we’re a WGA show and I’m paying WGA rates. Scripts they’re turning in? Ratings are going down. So now I have to go in and give notes on how to rewrite them. And if I still don’t like it, I have to pay them again for another rewrite,” “At one point, I thought they were submitting scripts that would need rewrites in order to get paid multiple times. And these are Black people”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “They felt like I was asking for too many changes and would never accept the script. I was furious,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “Look, one year, we overpaid the WGA by a million dollars,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry responded : “After dealing with all that bullshit? No. I ain’t doing it,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry explains ( about Tyler Perry ) : “I do and I will. We have four shows coming up with showrunners who will have their own writers and their own writers’ room. There will always be opportunities at Tyler Perry Studios for writers. Always. But for these particular shows, my audience wants my voice,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "You know what? You just make up the rules. It's your show, go ahead,"

upi Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:53:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,”

brownsvilleherald Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:15:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,”

news4jax Wednesday, January 15, 2020 2:14:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,”

actionnewsjax Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:41:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I just think that if I can build this beautiful place where children, families, LGBTQ youth who have been displaced, put out of their homes can come to a beautiful campus and live. Be reinserted into life,"

upi Monday, January 13, 2020 8:06:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I don't know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room,"

usaToday Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry writing : "Why am I telling you this? I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What's my point? Work ethic!"

usaToday Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “So, I don’t know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room,”

thegrio Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:54:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "So, I don't know if you know this, but all shows in television have a writer's room. And most of the time, there are ten, twelve people -- whatever -- that write on these television shows," "I have no writers room. Nobody writes any of my work. I write it all... I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What's my point? Work ethic!"

business-standard Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:01:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry wrote : “Another reason I’m so excited is that this is Crystal Fox’s first time playing the lead role in a movie… Can you believe that?!”

eurweb Saturday, January 4, 2020 5:41:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I want everybody here to congratulate Ozzie,”

latimes Monday, December 16, 2019 6:26:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry wrote : "My next movie guys!!! This is an amazing thriller!!!"

business-standard Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:58:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "It's 330 acres and 12 sound stages,"

npr Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry insisted : "The two of them in Sister Act , that should happen. Let's make it happen,"

click2houston Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:45:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I’ve been hard at work on ‘The Oval’ and can’t wait to share this story with audiences,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 16, 2019 6:01:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry explained : “He was really rude to the nanny and he was in the bathroom arguing with her…I get down to his level and I’m talking to him and I say ‘Listen, what are you doing? You don’t do this. This is unacceptable. You’re not going to disrespect her. You’re not going to disrespect your mom. You’re going to do what they say to do,'”

thegrio Tuesday, October 15, 2019 5:11:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I’ll tell you what I’m most excited about next is that, pulling this next phase off, is building a compound for trafficked women, girls, homeless women, LGBTQ youth who are put out and displaced,”

newnownext Saturday, October 12, 2019 5:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “Having a compound that is a beautiful place right here somewhere on this 330 acres, where they’re trained in the business and they become self-sufficient, they live in nice apartments, there’s daycare, there’s all of these wonderful things that allows them to re-enter society and then pay it forward again,”

wtsp Friday, October 11, 2019 10:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “Having a compound that is a beautiful place right here somewhere on this 330 acres, where they’re trained in the business and they become self-sufficient, they live in nice apartments, there’s day care, there’s all of these wonderful things that allows them to re-enter society and then pay it forward again. That’s what I hope to do soon”

actionnewsjax Friday, October 11, 2019 5:11:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “First of all, when you put a quarter of a billion dollars in the ground in one place, you can’t just go ‘Okay I’m out,’” “I still feel very strongly that the great thing about living in a democracy is every four years, you get an opportunity to change things”

nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry recalled ( about Tyler Perry ) : “This may sound cliché, but [ Tyler Perry Studios] being the home of Dr. King and having ‘the dream’ and being able to come here and live here. I’m telling you when I first came here, I saw Black people doing well, which blew my mind,” “This is what I tell people — exposure is so important. If you see it, that means you can do it. And when I got here, I saw something, something vibrated in me that I thought, ‘This is where you need to be.’ So to see all of this happening and know that that moment was right, that was my God voice leading me here, that’s been really phenomenal”

nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry explained : “It’s been incredible working with Oprah. I loved it, the only issue is OWN is one channel,” “When you have a facility like this, you have the capacity to do many, many different things. So the great thing about the Viacom deal and BET is starting off with those two shows, which is soon to be 5 or 6 shows and then launching BET Plus … and also being able to program VH1 and Comedy Central and Nickelodeon”

nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I just moved through it. Go onto the next thing. ‘Boys don’t cry, shut up and move on.’”

fox35orlando Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:38:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure,"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "My audience and the stories that I tell are African-American, stories specific to a certain audience, specific to a certain group of people that I know, that I grew up with, and we speak a language,"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I know what I do touches millions of people around the world,"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "Every black person that comes to work here, they go, 'Oh, my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented,' " "LGBTQs represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand in hand, arm in arm"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "For people to drop what they're doing in their very busy schedules to come and join me in this moment is beyond anything I could've imagined. It makes me happy. It makes me want to cry. It makes me grateful. It's just I'm beyond,"

business-standard Wednesday, October 9, 2019 5:20:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that's fine. I get it,"

business-standard Tuesday, October 8, 2019 8:20:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that’s fine I get it,”

eurweb Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:52:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I’ve been on sets where I’ve been the only black face on, only black face, as recently as 2019 going, ‘Where are the black people in this movie?’ Back behind the camera?” “So, when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, ‘Oh my God, it’s heaven. Here we are. We’re represented.’ Where everybody’s represented. LGBTQ’s represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We’re all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm”

eurweb Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:52:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

fox35orlando Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:23:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry recalled : "There was a moment that happened in 2005 at [Oprah's] Legends Ball "

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry added ( about Yolanda Adams ) : "Yolanda Adams is sitting next to me,"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "At 28 I went into the shell, 'cause I started touring, doing 300-something shows a year," "So somewhere around 44, 45 I came out of it, and I go, 'Wait a minute, where did all those years go?' So now I feel like I'm still 35. So I feel like I'm just getting started. There's nothing about me that feels like 50, whatever that's supposed to mean"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry added : "This entire journey of telling stories was born out of of pain, born out of heartache, born out of being an abused kid who could go inside of his head and create a world and imagination," "Also that same abused kid watching his mother getting beat and there's nothing he can do, my desire and heart to make her laugh and feel better was so strong. And you know, if I could make a joke or if I could imitate her or my aunt and make her laugh, or some of the women she played cards with on Friday nights, all of that was so powerful and so important to me"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I look at him and I'm looking at myself at that age," "And I'm wondering how anybody could be cruel and unkind to this level of pure innocence and beauty and love"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "So I'm trying to finish and he's just crying...'" "He said, 'Papa, I'm so sorry' I run outta the room without him noticing it, because it broke me. I realized that nobody had ever talked to me like a person as a child Nobody had ever talked to me like a human being. Right? So that's what I mean when I say my healer"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "Every time I talk to him, every time I hug him, every time I love him, let him know he's special, there's something in me that's being healed,"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "You know, the studio's gonna be what it is," "I'll tell you what I'm most excited about next is pulling this next phase off, is building a compound for trafficked women, girls, homeless women, LGBTQ youth who are put out and displaced somewhere on these 330 acres, where they're trained in the business and they become self-sufficient. They live in nice apartments. There's daycare. There's all of these wonderful things that allows them to reenter society. And then pay it forward again. So that's what I hope to do soon"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that’s fine. I get it,”

foxnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 7:16:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “Atlanta has been the dream. It has been the promised land,”

foxnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 7:16:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

fox5atlanta Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:46:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that's fine I get it,"

usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I know what I do is important. I know what I do touches millions of people around the world," "I know what that does for the people where I come from and the people that I’m writing for"

usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I've been on sets where I've been the only black face on, only black face, as recently as 2019 going, 'Where are the black people in this movie?' Back behind the camera?" "So, when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, 'Oh my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented.' Where everybody's represented. LGBTQ's represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm"

usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told ( about Oprah Winfrey ) : "In 2005, Oprah invited me to her Legends Ball,"

click2houston Monday, October 7, 2019 10:48:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "Thank you Ms. Carroll for how you showed the world that black people are special, strong, beautiful and powerful," "I know you will live on in our hearts, but I'm so glad to know that your name will live on at Stage 5 at Tyler Perry Studios. Thank you for letting me honor you, and thank you for lending your legend to my studio to inspire generations to come"

upi Monday, October 7, 2019 4:45:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

arkansasonline Monday, October 7, 2019 11:11:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

fox35orlando Monday, October 7, 2019 6:05:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Diahann Carroll ) : “Thank you, Ms. Carroll, for how you showed the world that black people are special, strong, beautiful, and powerful,”

theepochtimes Monday, October 7, 2019 5:56:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

thegrio Monday, October 7, 2019 12:46:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “It’s beyond moving, inspiring, exciting. I can’t even put it into words,”

eurweb Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:42:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I have never known anyone with so much class and grace, black, white, or other. She was the epitome of all that is inspiring and encouraging. My whole hope is for everyone who doesn't know who she is. They need to find out. She did a lot for all of us,"

fox5atlanta Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:34:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

missoulian Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:21:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

independent-ie-regional Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:20:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

wwlp Sunday, October 6, 2019 6:58:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

ABCnews Sunday, October 6, 2019 5:37:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,”

thegrio Saturday, October 5, 2019 2:37:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,”

thegrio Saturday, October 5, 2019 2:37:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I want you to walk past this star in particular and know that I’ve been there,”

thegrio Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:33:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "For anyone whose dreams may be on life support, I want you to walk past this star in particular and know that I've been there,"

actionnewsjax Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:21:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Brian Robbins ) : “I’m excited to work with Brian and the team at Nickelodeon and find creative ways to reach new audiences,” “I love creating comedy television and can’t wait to work with the talented Young Dylan”

businesswire Thursday, October 3, 2019 2:33:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I don't think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,"

irishsun Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:44:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Brian Robbins ) : “I’m excited to work with Brian and the team at Nickelodeon and find creative ways to reach new audiences,” “I love creating comedy television and can’t wait to work with the talented Young Dylan”

4-traders Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:13:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “This one in particular is for the underdogs,” “This one in particular is for the ones who want to do it there way. This one in particular is for the ones who want to bring as many people through the door as they can”

eurweb Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6:39:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry tells : “I don’t think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6:39:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "So my hope is that anyone in this town--cause I see lots of people come here with their dreams in their hands and sometimes it doesn't work out or sometimes they give up,"

news4jax Wednesday, October 2, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,"

fox5atlanta Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:23:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I think they will go hand in hand,"

fox5atlanta Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:23:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,"

voanews Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:39:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I think they will go hand in hand,"

voanews Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:39:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,”

therepublic Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:31:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,”

therepublic Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:31:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “Also, I put $250 million in the ground here and in the studio. So when you have a quarter of a billion dollars sat down in the ground, you can’t just up and leave,”

thegrio Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:12:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “What I know about this industry is that there are 94,000-plus or 98,000 people who are in this industry and who are benefiting from it greatly, and that’s a lot of votes. I’m in a wait and see moment right now. But that’s a lot of votes. That’s a lot of votes that can determine an election” “I don’t believe any man should be able to tell a woman what she can do with her body or reproductive organs,”

thegrio Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:12:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,”

seattletimes Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:51:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,”

seattletimes Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:51:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about In The ) : “In one of the scenes, it was very emotional for her [Crystal],”

eurweb Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:24:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry responded : “I think hair is very, very important, but figure that sh*t out before we go on camera is my whole thing,” “As long as y’all figured it out before it’s time to shoot, I’m good. I don’t got time to waste five hours and spend spending $10 million to figure out which curl is better for you”

eurweb Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:24:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry wrote : “My heart breaks today at the death of my dear friend,”

eurweb Friday, January 24, 2020 9:48:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “While it takes people in Hollywood seven days to shoot one episode of a primetime drama, we shoot two in six to seven days,”

independent-UK Wednesday, January 22, 2020 1:44:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry says : “I love how somebody can pick up on those things,” “But that wasn’t my intention. Maybe that was the intention of my art director. This film has a lot of characters living dual lives. I was just trying to tell a story”

houstonchronicle Friday, January 17, 2020 10:16:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “As I’m writing, I’m really a fly on the wall, listening to the characters and letting them tell me their experience. I’m not judging them,”

suntimes Friday, January 17, 2020 3:06:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “And I want to invite every white person to see it,” “Be open-minded. Don’t automatically assume it’s one thing because it’s an all-black cast. It’s a thrill ride for everyone”

suntimes Friday, January 17, 2020 3:06:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry : “I think that a group would be great, but if you wanna watch it alone, you can. You just may have to cover your eyes toward the end, but yeah”

wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry : “I’ve done 20 movies, and I’ve been proud of everything I’ve done, but to have someone like this, who has been in this business all these years and now getting her shot, and has a billboard with her face in Times Square, man, that makes me so proud”

wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry : “That’s it. Remember your worth. Even if you start dating someone new, remember your worth”

wsvn Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:50:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry tells : “TBS isn’t paying me the money upfront — I’m financing these shows myself. I’m not Sony, I’m not Disney; I need to work out a deal for pay rates,”

eurweb Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:20:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry explains : “I’m getting calls that I fired writers for trying to unionize. What? I came to the WGA on my own to try to work with them! I fired the writers because they weren’t giving me what I wanted. Period. It was a mess. The press says I fired writers who were trying to unionize. Not true, and it pissed me off,” “Later on, my mom got sick. So I put a writers’ room in place for one of my shows. Now we’re a WGA show and I’m paying WGA rates. Scripts they’re turning in? Ratings are going down. So now I have to go in and give notes on how to rewrite them. And if I still don’t like it, I have to pay them again for another rewrite,”

eurweb Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:20:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “TBS isn’t paying me the money upfront — I’m financing these shows myself. I’m not Sony, I’m not Disney; I need to work out a deal for pay rates,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I’m getting calls that I fired writers for trying to unionize. What? I came to the WGA on my own to try to work with them! I fired the writers because they weren’t giving me what I wanted. Period. It was a mess. The press says I fired writers who were trying to unionize. Not true, and it pissed me off,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “Later on, my mom got sick. So I put a writers’ room in place for one of my shows. Now we’re a WGA show and I’m paying WGA rates. Scripts they’re turning in? Ratings are going down. So now I have to go in and give notes on how to rewrite them. And if I still don’t like it, I have to pay them again for another rewrite,” “At one point, I thought they were submitting scripts that would need rewrites in order to get paid multiple times. And these are Black people”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “They felt like I was asking for too many changes and would never accept the script. I was furious,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “Look, one year, we overpaid the WGA by a million dollars,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry responded : “After dealing with all that bullshit? No. I ain’t doing it,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry explains ( about Tyler Perry ) : “I do and I will. We have four shows coming up with showrunners who will have their own writers and their own writers’ room. There will always be opportunities at Tyler Perry Studios for writers. Always. But for these particular shows, my audience wants my voice,”

thegrio Wednesday, January 15, 2020 9:35:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "You know what? You just make up the rules. It's your show, go ahead,"

upi Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:53:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,”

brownsvilleherald Wednesday, January 15, 2020 3:15:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,”

news4jax Wednesday, January 15, 2020 2:14:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “There is no need in going back and forth, or fighting, or protesting. It is what it is. This is how it is in Hollywood, and it’s how it will always be,”

actionnewsjax Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:41:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I just think that if I can build this beautiful place where children, families, LGBTQ youth who have been displaced, put out of their homes can come to a beautiful campus and live. Be reinserted into life,"

upi Monday, January 13, 2020 8:06:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I don't know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room,"

usaToday Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry writing : "Why am I telling you this? I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What's my point? Work ethic!"

usaToday Wednesday, January 8, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “So, I don’t know if you know this, but all shows on television have a writers room,”

thegrio Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:54:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "So, I don't know if you know this, but all shows in television have a writer's room. And most of the time, there are ten, twelve people -- whatever -- that write on these television shows," "I have no writers room. Nobody writes any of my work. I write it all... I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What's my point? Work ethic!"

business-standard Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:01:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry wrote : “Another reason I’m so excited is that this is Crystal Fox’s first time playing the lead role in a movie… Can you believe that?!”

eurweb Saturday, January 4, 2020 5:41:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I want everybody here to congratulate Ozzie,”

latimes Monday, December 16, 2019 6:26:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry wrote : "My next movie guys!!! This is an amazing thriller!!!"

business-standard Sunday, November 24, 2019 12:58:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "It's 330 acres and 12 sound stages,"

npr Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry insisted : "The two of them in Sister Act , that should happen. Let's make it happen,"

click2houston Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:45:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I’ve been hard at work on ‘The Oval’ and can’t wait to share this story with audiences,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 16, 2019 6:01:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry explained : “He was really rude to the nanny and he was in the bathroom arguing with her…I get down to his level and I’m talking to him and I say ‘Listen, what are you doing? You don’t do this. This is unacceptable. You’re not going to disrespect her. You’re not going to disrespect your mom. You’re going to do what they say to do,'”

thegrio Tuesday, October 15, 2019 5:11:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I’ll tell you what I’m most excited about next is that, pulling this next phase off, is building a compound for trafficked women, girls, homeless women, LGBTQ youth who are put out and displaced,”

newnownext Saturday, October 12, 2019 5:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “Having a compound that is a beautiful place right here somewhere on this 330 acres, where they’re trained in the business and they become self-sufficient, they live in nice apartments, there’s daycare, there’s all of these wonderful things that allows them to re-enter society and then pay it forward again,”

wtsp Friday, October 11, 2019 10:49:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “Having a compound that is a beautiful place right here somewhere on this 330 acres, where they’re trained in the business and they become self-sufficient, they live in nice apartments, there’s day care, there’s all of these wonderful things that allows them to re-enter society and then pay it forward again. That’s what I hope to do soon”

actionnewsjax Friday, October 11, 2019 5:11:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “First of all, when you put a quarter of a billion dollars in the ground in one place, you can’t just go ‘Okay I’m out,’” “I still feel very strongly that the great thing about living in a democracy is every four years, you get an opportunity to change things”

nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry recalled ( about Tyler Perry ) : “This may sound cliché, but [ Tyler Perry Studios] being the home of Dr. King and having ‘the dream’ and being able to come here and live here. I’m telling you when I first came here, I saw Black people doing well, which blew my mind,” “This is what I tell people — exposure is so important. If you see it, that means you can do it. And when I got here, I saw something, something vibrated in me that I thought, ‘This is where you need to be.’ So to see all of this happening and know that that moment was right, that was my God voice leading me here, that’s been really phenomenal”

nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry explained : “It’s been incredible working with Oprah. I loved it, the only issue is OWN is one channel,” “When you have a facility like this, you have the capacity to do many, many different things. So the great thing about the Viacom deal and BET is starting off with those two shows, which is soon to be 5 or 6 shows and then launching BET Plus … and also being able to program VH1 and Comedy Central and Nickelodeon”

nbcnews Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:40:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I just moved through it. Go onto the next thing. ‘Boys don’t cry, shut up and move on.’”

fox35orlando Thursday, October 10, 2019 8:38:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure,"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "My audience and the stories that I tell are African-American, stories specific to a certain audience, specific to a certain group of people that I know, that I grew up with, and we speak a language,"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I know what I do touches millions of people around the world,"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "Every black person that comes to work here, they go, 'Oh, my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented,' " "LGBTQs represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand in hand, arm in arm"

click2houston Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:28:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "For people to drop what they're doing in their very busy schedules to come and join me in this moment is beyond anything I could've imagined. It makes me happy. It makes me want to cry. It makes me grateful. It's just I'm beyond,"

business-standard Wednesday, October 9, 2019 5:20:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I'm ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that's fine. I get it,"

business-standard Tuesday, October 8, 2019 8:20:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that’s fine I get it,”

eurweb Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:52:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I’ve been on sets where I’ve been the only black face on, only black face, as recently as 2019 going, ‘Where are the black people in this movie?’ Back behind the camera?” “So, when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, ‘Oh my God, it’s heaven. Here we are. We’re represented.’ Where everybody’s represented. LGBTQ’s represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We’re all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm”

eurweb Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:52:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

fox35orlando Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:23:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry recalled : "There was a moment that happened in 2005 at [Oprah's] Legends Ball "

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry added ( about Yolanda Adams ) : "Yolanda Adams is sitting next to me,"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "At 28 I went into the shell, 'cause I started touring, doing 300-something shows a year," "So somewhere around 44, 45 I came out of it, and I go, 'Wait a minute, where did all those years go?' So now I feel like I'm still 35. So I feel like I'm just getting started. There's nothing about me that feels like 50, whatever that's supposed to mean"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry added : "This entire journey of telling stories was born out of of pain, born out of heartache, born out of being an abused kid who could go inside of his head and create a world and imagination," "Also that same abused kid watching his mother getting beat and there's nothing he can do, my desire and heart to make her laugh and feel better was so strong. And you know, if I could make a joke or if I could imitate her or my aunt and make her laugh, or some of the women she played cards with on Friday nights, all of that was so powerful and so important to me"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I look at him and I'm looking at myself at that age," "And I'm wondering how anybody could be cruel and unkind to this level of pure innocence and beauty and love"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "So I'm trying to finish and he's just crying...'" "He said, 'Papa, I'm so sorry' I run outta the room without him noticing it, because it broke me. I realized that nobody had ever talked to me like a person as a child Nobody had ever talked to me like a human being. Right? So that's what I mean when I say my healer"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "Every time I talk to him, every time I hug him, every time I love him, let him know he's special, there's something in me that's being healed,"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "You know, the studio's gonna be what it is," "I'll tell you what I'm most excited about next is pulling this next phase off, is building a compound for trafficked women, girls, homeless women, LGBTQ youth who are put out and displaced somewhere on these 330 acres, where they're trained in the business and they become self-sufficient. They live in nice apartments. There's daycare. There's all of these wonderful things that allows them to reenter society. And then pay it forward again. So that's what I hope to do soon"

CBSnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:56:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that’s fine. I get it,”

foxnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 7:16:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “Atlanta has been the dream. It has been the promised land,”

foxnews Tuesday, October 8, 2019 7:16:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

fox5atlanta Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3:46:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I clearly believe that I’m ignored in Hollywood, for sure, and that's fine I get it,"

usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I know what I do is important. I know what I do touches millions of people around the world," "I know what that does for the people where I come from and the people that I’m writing for"

usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I've been on sets where I've been the only black face on, only black face, as recently as 2019 going, 'Where are the black people in this movie?' Back behind the camera?" "So, when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, 'Oh my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented.' Where everybody's represented. LGBTQ's represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm"

usaToday Monday, October 7, 2019 11:55:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told ( about Oprah Winfrey ) : "In 2005, Oprah invited me to her Legends Ball,"

click2houston Monday, October 7, 2019 10:48:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Tyler Perry ) : "Thank you Ms. Carroll for how you showed the world that black people are special, strong, beautiful and powerful," "I know you will live on in our hearts, but I'm so glad to know that your name will live on at Stage 5 at Tyler Perry Studios. Thank you for letting me honor you, and thank you for lending your legend to my studio to inspire generations to come"

upi Monday, October 7, 2019 4:45:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

arkansasonline Monday, October 7, 2019 11:11:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

fox35orlando Monday, October 7, 2019 6:05:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Diahann Carroll ) : “Thank you, Ms. Carroll, for how you showed the world that black people are special, strong, beautiful, and powerful,”

theepochtimes Monday, October 7, 2019 5:56:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

thegrio Monday, October 7, 2019 12:46:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “It’s beyond moving, inspiring, exciting. I can’t even put it into words,”

eurweb Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:42:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I have never known anyone with so much class and grace, black, white, or other. She was the epitome of all that is inspiring and encouraging. My whole hope is for everyone who doesn't know who she is. They need to find out. She did a lot for all of us,"

fox5atlanta Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:34:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

missoulian Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:21:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

independent-ie-regional Sunday, October 6, 2019 8:20:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “I think it’s pivotal in everything that we’ve done, everything that we’re doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,”

wwlp Sunday, October 6, 2019 6:58:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I think it's pivotal in everything that we've done, everything that we're doing still, that we continue to try to motivate and inspire people,"

ABCnews Sunday, October 6, 2019 5:37:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,”

thegrio Saturday, October 5, 2019 2:37:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,”

thegrio Saturday, October 5, 2019 2:37:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I want you to walk past this star in particular and know that I’ve been there,”

thegrio Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:33:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "For anyone whose dreams may be on life support, I want you to walk past this star in particular and know that I've been there,"

actionnewsjax Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:21:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Brian Robbins ) : “I’m excited to work with Brian and the team at Nickelodeon and find creative ways to reach new audiences,” “I love creating comedy television and can’t wait to work with the talented Young Dylan”

businesswire Thursday, October 3, 2019 2:33:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : "I don't think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,"

irishsun Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:44:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said ( about Brian Robbins ) : “I’m excited to work with Brian and the team at Nickelodeon and find creative ways to reach new audiences,” “I love creating comedy television and can’t wait to work with the talented Young Dylan”

4-traders Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:13:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “This one in particular is for the underdogs,” “This one in particular is for the ones who want to do it there way. This one in particular is for the ones who want to bring as many people through the door as they can”

eurweb Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6:39:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry tells : “I don’t think I ever felt safe or protected as a child,”

eurweb Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6:39:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "So my hope is that anyone in this town--cause I see lots of people come here with their dreams in their hands and sometimes it doesn't work out or sometimes they give up,"

news4jax Wednesday, October 2, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,"

fox5atlanta Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:23:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I think they will go hand in hand,"

fox5atlanta Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:23:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,"

voanews Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:39:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : "I think they will go hand in hand,"

voanews Wednesday, October 2, 2019 7:39:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,”

therepublic Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:31:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,”

therepublic Wednesday, October 2, 2019 3:31:00 AM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “Also, I put $250 million in the ground here and in the studio. So when you have a quarter of a billion dollars sat down in the ground, you can’t just up and leave,”

thegrio Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:12:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry told : “What I know about this industry is that there are 94,000-plus or 98,000 people who are in this industry and who are benefiting from it greatly, and that’s a lot of votes. I’m in a wait and see moment right now. But that’s a lot of votes. That’s a lot of votes that can determine an election” “I don’t believe any man should be able to tell a woman what she can do with her body or reproductive organs,”

thegrio Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:12:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “When I came here in 1992, I came with a dream,”

seattletimes Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:51:00 PM EAT

Tyler Perry said : “I think they will go hand in hand,”

seattletimes Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:51:00 PM EAT