Being a mom changes your life. It actually has made me become more comfortable in my own skin and my own body because it's such a growth and a learning lesson.

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.

What do we live for? If not to give what you have and share life with other souls.

Don't misunderstand people by smile or appearance.every person is not living life some one just spend the life

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.