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

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

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

"I want to co-produce again."

"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."

"America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life."

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

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

"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."

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