“I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns,...” — Tyler Perry Quote

I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or witches. They're not just my thing.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was, 'God, let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother.' I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience.

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.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

So way back, Jonathan and I were - we were entertainers as kids. We were actors; we did theater, musicals; we ended up getting into commercials and some TV spots. Actually, one of our jobs, we were clowns.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.