I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

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.

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

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.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

The bad guys dont always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.