Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or rui...
I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
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.
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
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.
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over...
In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!
There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
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 th...
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.
What I've learned is you treat women right.
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
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.