Top 101 Perry Quotes

I think that Steve Perry will always be known as the singer of Journey. I have so much respect for him.

Tyler Perry’s brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I’ve built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney‘s Touchstone. We can do anything. People don’t know what to expect from me yet.

I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he’s done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we’re talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.

Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I’ve ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple – she had purple lipstick on. I don’t think there will ever be anything cooler than kissing her… until I marry her maybe!

I like Katy Perry. I like Kesha.

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.

I feel like I am just an entertainer. It does not matter what form I take to perform and entertain. I think I deserve being called a performer because you don’t call Tyler Perry a drag queen. You don’t call Will Smith a drag queen and all the other mainstream artists who use the aesthetic of drag to entertain.

I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.

I’m listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I’m pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they’ve come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it’s something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

If I want to dance, I listen to Meghan Trainor, Katy Perry, Justin Timeberlake.

The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.

If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn’t bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it’s like, ‘See what you guys do?’ and that type of thing.

I’m really into Noel Gallagher’s lad culture vibe. I used to wear Fred Perry polo shirts a lot. In fact, I went to an Oasis concert, which I believe was the band‘s penultimate gig before they disbanded, and I would say about 80 per cent of the audience were wearing the same polo.

I like that guy Matthew Perry a lot.

‘Hatching Pete’ was so much fun. Mitchel Musso and Jason Dolley, as well as Josie Loren, who was also in ’17 Again’ with Sterling and Zac Efron and Matthew Perry are in it. We just had a blast filming.

My first influences for playing were Johnny Ramone and Jimmy Page, the same as everybody else. Joe Perry. The guys in Alice Cooper‘s band, whatever their names were. Mick Ronson from David Bowie. You know who really influenced me to write songs? Iron Maiden.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

I live primarily on chocolate chip cookies and coffee, and I’m prone to singing Katy Perry songs at the top of my lungs in the car. I’m an unapologetic fan.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.

The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school ’90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

I live in L.A., and whenever I get together with anybody to write, everybody is obsessed and fearful and wants to write a hit for everyone else. They wanna write a hit for Rihanna; they wanna write a hit for Katy Perry.

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry’s probably the most massively successful.

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry’s career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

I love Audrey Hepburn; I love those silhouettes and T-length skirts and stuff. They’re just very classy. I like to mix that look with quirkiness, kind of like how Katy Perry has that quirkiness.

I love Katy Perry.

I was blown away by Steve Perry’s voice – you know, his amazing ability to change from a lambing voice to rock.

My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums… And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.

When we started ‘Perry Mason,’ we thought it might go a year.

I didn’t grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.

Not so much the sound but as a person, I would say Katy Perry inspires me because you can always see that she’s being true to herself. She focuses on her music and even turns down big producers. Her whole career and music is about her being herself. I want to be more like that.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She’s crazy, she’s fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.

I hear a really good pop song every now and then. ‘ROAR’ by Katy Perry, I love that! ‘Poker Face‘… Oh! What a song! And ‘Rolling in the Deep‘… Oh!

Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

Someone like Katy Perry – I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs – like, ‘Firework’ is a song that I think I could write.

My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs – and even when I got into rock ‘n’ roll, that stayed with me.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can’t wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of ‘For Better or Worse.’ I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, ‘Action!’ and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.

I love everything Katy Perry does.

I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, ‘Why Did I Get Married?’

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music… I love big, American pop music.

Perry Farrell is so gross, and his wife looks like a monkey.

Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man and to be a good husband. Not only does he have to take care of his own family, but the state of Texas.

Unless I’ve got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it’s going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn’t do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

I would recommend these books: ‘Dream Big, Little One,’ by Vashti Harrison, ‘I Am Enough,’ by Grace Byers, ‘Hair Like Mine,’ by LaTashia M. Perry, ‘Hair Love,’ by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley… and of course, my book!

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa’s pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

‘Teenage Dream’ was the most difficult song I’ve ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn’t get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.

I was a mod when I was a kid. I’d be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform – a very specific look.

A lot of bakeries, especially cupcake stores, look like you just walked into a Katy Perry video.

I’ve been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

I’ll date whoever is attractive, as long as it’s a man. But I’ll be like Katy Perry from time to time and kiss a girl.

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world – and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I’d like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy – a mixture of the two would be hot.

I really like ‘Roar‘ and ‘Dark Horse.’ ‘Dark Horse’ I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry’s amazing!

I never had a slight feeling of intimidation. I’m not even trying to compete with Mr. Perry.

I met Tyler Perry and we did ‘House of Payne’ and a movie. We’ve done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I’m a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I’ve been successful. If you tell me no, I’ll work even harder!

I’d love to get into one of Tyler Perry’s movies – play a little role, have a little character. I don’t care. But more than two lines! More than two words!

I’m proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when ‘Perry Mason’ came along.

I think you can’t really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers… Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, ‘Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.’ She goes, ‘Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?’

Whether you’re talking about Chris Christie, or you’re talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there’s more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn’t have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

Katy Perry still gets me every time. She’s very funny in person! We met at the Teen Choice Awards and she pulled my cheeks apart and told me how cute I was. My life was literally flashing before my eyes!

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.

When I was a kid in the late ’60s and early ’70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.

There is only one Steve Perry, and I am a fan.

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it’s basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he’s always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it’s rare to find an artist who hasn’t been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today‘s popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

When I’m dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there’s risks that you don’t. And I think I’m interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.

I’ve never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It’s obviously dress up and theatre.

Katy Perry’s politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she’s very nice.

The society in ‘The Handmaid‘s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.

I just listen to my Katy Perry. It’s just her mood toward her music. She’s always happy and perky. So, I mean, I like to be happy. Might as well listen to happy music.

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry’s first movie, ‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman.’

It’s important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That’s why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.

I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs.

I really like Rihanna. And I actually do like Justin Bieber. I like the Weeknd. I like Katy Perry.

Everything has happened so fast for me that I sometimes can’t take it all in. I’m a huge ‘Friends’ fan, and meeting Matthew Perry in L.A., where he was as keen to talk to me about ‘Extras’ as I was to him about ‘Friends,’ was amazing.

Honestly, are we ever going to get over ‘California Girls’ by Katy Perry? I know it’s old, but that song – I love that song!

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn’t right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that ‘Perry Mason’ and myself have come to the parting of the road. ‘Perry Mason’ has become a career for me… all I know is that I work, eat and sleep ‘Perry Mason.’

Texas governor Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been ‘brutalized’ for his faith.

I’m a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.

I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don’t know if it’s because I’m versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can’t wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.

The lesson of the Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal failures is simple: You can’t run a presidential campaign from the undercard stage.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

I think Mike Perry is a guy the fans actually care about.

It’s terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.

I feel like part of my journey as a filmmaker is to tell different stories, whether they are just a black perspective on things that aren’t necessarily hood movies, or Tyler Perry movies or Ava DuVernay movies. Love all those people, but that whole thing has been sowed up already.