Will Perry
Will Perry
uplifting moving thinking
What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.
men voice honor
You need to know that you can't honor God when you're chained to the voice and opinions of man.
real people grudge
There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.
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.