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.

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

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.