The sky is the limit. I'm just following where life takes me. It's been an incredible journey.

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.

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

I am an inclusive lover, but I only do care about the virgins.

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.