I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

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.

One thing I have in abundance here are bags. They're not much different than kitchen trash bags, though I'm sure they cost $50, 000 because of NASA.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.

Yes, the mutes are already on. You took them off in the beginning.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.

It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.