I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

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.

You were born beautiful, and you remain beautiful.

Embrace all people with love, mercy and faith.

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.