Quotes from Jenifer Lewis

We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.

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

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

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.

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

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

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

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

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

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

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.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

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

I don't know what to say about Jill Marie. The girls on 'Girlfriends' were all my babies.

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

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

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.

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.

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