I Want To Be Remembered As A

I'm Not Suspicious Of Success, I'm Suspicious Of The People Who Want To Attach Themselves Because Of Your Success.

People See Truth In My Films. That's What They React To, And That's What They Relate To.

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.

My Friend Madea Has "attitude" That Comes With Wisdom. Back In Our Teens And Twenties, We Thought We Knew Everything And Made All Those Foolish Mistakes. Then, When We Got A Little Older, At Thirty, We Started Getting These Flashes Of Light, Revelations Of What A Great And Lucky Thing It Is That We Didn't Get Caught Doing Those Stupid Things Back Then. Around Forty, If We Are Lucky, We Stop Lying To Ourselves. Fifty And Above, We've Run Out Of Patience For Foolishness. Take Me To The Bottom Line.

You Know, People At Wal-mart Are Standing There With Their Uniforms On. I Feel Like I'm Putting On A Uniform To Do A Movie. I Don't Feel Like It's Dressing In Drag.