Words matter. These are the best Jenifer Lewis Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.
I want to co-produce again.
I never thought I’d be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness – that’s my right.
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.
You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.
It’s important to e alive in those moment, especially when you’re doing something you love to do.
America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.
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.
I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won’t.
I had not starred in an independent film and it’s about a woman who owned a hair salon.
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.
‘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’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.
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.
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.
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.
We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.
I did ‘Eubie!’ on Broadway with the Hines brothers, ‘Comin’ Uptown’ with Gregory Hines, and then ‘Hairspray.’
You have to be a star to be in this business.
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
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 don’t leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.
I’ve been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain’t no joke.
I’ve been keeping a journal since I was in the seventh grade.
Don’t think you’re going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.
Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn’t sing on the set of Sister Act.
We didn’t have a beauty shop as I grew up.
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 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’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 don’t have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
I don’t know what to say about Jill Marie. The girls on ‘Girlfriends’ were all my babies.
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.
Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that’s me.
I think my performance in ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ was powerful. I was so unafraid and confident. You know, it was the first mother of black Hollywood. I was Tina Turner’s mama. That’s what started it all. I had fallen in love right before that movie, and I had absolutely no fear in me.
