I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

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.

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.