Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

Joy doubles your faith, strength triples your might, and love quadruples your power.

You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.