Jenifer Lewis Quotes
I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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You can't get dressed without good hair.
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I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
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Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.
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It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
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I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
