I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

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 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.

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something

Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers.

Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.

Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.