You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.

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.

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.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L. Jones

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.