But I knew once I got it in my head, I was going to be OK. I didn’t want to disappoint these people who believed in me. “I realized I didn’t have the line in my head and I said, ‘Hold on a second,’ because I am a perfectionist, come on! When I deliver, I have to deliver. “So I walk on and everybody’s leaning forward: Here’s the great Jenifer Lewis, here she comes! And then I step on to the blue tape, my mark - and I can’t remember a single word. And of course I’ve learned, with all that parting of the Red Sea, you better have a big smile on your face whether you mean it or not! You know, that walk that says, ‘I’m coming in the room … Jenifer Lewis is here!’ So the Red Sea parts, basically. “They call places, ‘Ready Miss Lewis,’ and I have that Jenifer Lewis walk.
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