Top 30 Jenifer Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The elevator to success is broken. Take the stairs.”

— Jenifer Lewis

2. “Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes.”

— Jenifer Lewis

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

— Jenifer Lewis

4. “You are a GODDESS when you leave the salon.”

— Jenifer Lewis

5. “There’s no greater journey than the journey within.”

— Jenifer Lewis

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

— Jenifer Lewis

7. “I’m just now getting myself together to start living, not just surviving; laughing and not pretending, learning and not running away from my problems. The process is painful.”

— Jenifer Lewis

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

— Jenifer Lewis

9. “I’m in the moment. I’m always in the moment of life.”

— Jenifer Lewis

10. “I’ve learned in life that what you give to others is what provides the most value to your life. There I was, a mess myself, yet I still had something to offer that would have an effect on another person’s world.”

— Jenifer Lewis

11. “Feel the fear. And, tell the truth to yourself.”

— Jenifer Lewis

12. “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.”

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13. “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

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

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

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

— Jenifer Lewis

17. “You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.”

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18. “Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.”

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

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20. “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

21. “You can have anything you want.”

— Jenifer Lewis

22. “Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that’s me.”

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23. “You can’t wake up looking for the recession.”

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24. “You have to be a star to be in this business.”

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25. “I want to co-produce again.”

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26. “Shoulders back, titties first!”

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27. “When you’re running, you take yourself with you.”

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28. “JOURNAL ENTRY: Stop waiting for something or someone to come and make you happy. Meditate daily. Breathe. Come on. You’re okay. You have friends. Love them. Respect them. Go out and play. Learn to be alone.”

— Jenifer Lewis

29. “Nelson Mandela has been cited as saying words that ring true for me: “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

— Jenifer Lewis

30. “Number one: the elevator to success is broken – take the stairs. Number two: it is when you’re hardest hit that you mustn’t quit. Number three: love yourself so that love will not be a stranger when it comes.”

— Jenifer Lewis

31. “I smiled a bit, thinking how meaningless rejection becomes as the years roll by.”

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32. “I felt sorry for myself. I knew I wasn’t a bad person, but it did not stop me from carrying on and being argumentative. I felt out of control of my behavior or blamed others for my treatment of them. I felt my brain was moving too rapidly and I was constantly chasing after myself. Except for Terry, nobody seemed to be on my side.”

— Jenifer Lewis

33. “Listen to what the gods have asked you to show up as in this one fantastic life. Just sit down somewhere, be still, and listen.”

— Jenifer Lewis

34. “I don’t have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.”

— Jenifer Lewis