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

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

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

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

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

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

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.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

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.

You can have anything you want

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

Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand.

You get something, if you do something

The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself.... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.