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'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 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.

You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.

The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!

If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.