If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.
Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.
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.
We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.
Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.
It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.
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.
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.
If you don't love it, don't touch it.
If you just want to be a star, go away.
You have to be a star to be in this business.
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 never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.
We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell 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.
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'm a classically trained actress, and I have many levels and colors, and 'Ventura Boulevard' is where I am planning to stretch and grow.
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.
