Jenifer Lewis Quotes

I never gave up. I never quit. I've been a leader all my life, from elementary school to president of my class to excelling at college. I had a dream, and my dream sustained me. I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way. I was like a meteorite. I wanted to become a star. It's been quite a journey.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.

You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

You are a GODDESS when you leave the salon

I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

I want to co-produce again.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes