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

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.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

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

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.