On Mainstream Success After Years of Flying Under the Radar: “You know, the thing about it is, again, I didn't buy into any of it. I never read the good or the bad because I don't want to believe either one of them. But when you've had success... Because you can be a huge star among African-American people and the rest of the world never even knows who you are, but they had prepared me for a lot of this. This was six years of... There are some cities even before the movie where I couldn't walk down the street without being mobbed for autographs and going to the mall was difficult and eating dinner was difficult. So having all of those things happen has prepared me for this walk I'm on now.”
Tyler Perry’s Approach to Comedy Writing: “You know, I write from the aspect of complete life. In life we go through moments where we're in very serious moments one minute and then we're in very dramatic moments the next. I know that this works because I'm on stage with 30,000 people every week and I do it every week. We go into one serious moment and then we're laughing the next, and it helps to talk about these kinds of subjects.”
