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I want to co-produce again.
You can have anything you want
If you don't love it, don't touch it.
If you just want to be a star, go away.
You are a GODDESS when you leave the salon
We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
You can't wake up looking for the recession.
You have to be a star to be in this business.
America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.
The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.
I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.
You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.
We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.
Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.
Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.
I've been keeping a journal since I was in the seventh grade.
I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.
Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes
You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.
I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.
I don't leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.
I don't know what to say about Jill Marie. The girls on 'Girlfriends' were all my babies.
I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.
What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.
Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.
It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.
It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.
Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.
I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.
If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.
I did 'Eubie!' on Broadway with the Hines brothers, 'Comin' Uptown' with Gregory Hines, and then 'Hairspray.'
I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.
I'm a classically trained actress, and I have many levels and colors, and 'Ventura Boulevard' is where I am planning to stretch and grow.
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.
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.
I'm very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.
Forty-five million people hit that button for 'In These Streets.' When you find out you have that kind of popularity, you better use it. It's called responsibility.
I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.
'Black-ish' is the cherry on the top of my career... When you come into your own, when you're in your skin, you're unstoppable, because you're living in the moment of life.
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.
Creativity does not stop just because you're over 50. Hollywood spits female actresses out after age 29, but you don't stop creating. If anything, you become wiser and even better.
You don't want to wait until something horrible happens to get help. Admit that something's not right. You might not know exactly what, but you still want to go get it checked out.
The biggest message I want to get out is that a lot of us live in a bubble, and we think things can't happen to us, but they do. When it does happen to you, take care of yourself, and then get up.
On September 11, 2015, only hours before my mother passed away, I learned that the man I planned to build a life with was a convicted felon and con artist whose criminal career spans more than 25 years.
I was gifted at birth with this talent, and I've tried to honor it all my life. And I did - through hell and storms and tsunamis and earthquakes. I've been through too much not to know that giving back is everything.
I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.