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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

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

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

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.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.

We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.

We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.