I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

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.

If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Success depends on your attitude

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

If we walk far enough, " says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.