Jenifer Lewis Quotes

• 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.

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

• If you don’t love it, don’t touch it.

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

• 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.

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

• America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

• I’m in the moment. I’m always in the moment of life.

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

• I want to co-produce again.

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

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

  Jenifer Lewis

Jenifer Lewis (23)

Birth:	25th January, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Comedian, Singer

About

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an American actress, comedian and singer. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler. Her role in several films include: Beaches, Sister Act, Poetic Justice, What's Love Got to Do with It, Panther, The Preacher's Wife, The Mighty, Blast from the Past,  The Brothers, Think Like a Man, The Heart Specialist, Think Like a Man Too, and The Wedding Ringer. Her role in television include: Little Richard (TV film), Five (TV film), A Different World (TV series), Courthouse (TV series), Strong Medicine (medical drama), The Playboy Club (TV series), and Black-ish (TV series, Nominated- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series- 2016).

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