Tyler Perry

"I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father."

"I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard."

"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."

"I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work."

"I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood."

"If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith."

"My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that."

"My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now."

"Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero."

"Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman."

"There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized."