Will Perry
Will Perry
dream giving-up thinking
I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
jobs character thinking
I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.
thinking actors hollywood
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.
swimming boys sea
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
caring thinking people
I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
writing trying weight
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.
hollywood three four
It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.
mother southern term
'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
mother strong aunt
My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.
new-orleans people proud
I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.
people film relate
People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
brain film millions
What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.
believe hype numbers
Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.
drama comedy critics
I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!