I wouldn't feel right wearing clothes covering my body.

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.

I base a deuteragonist on the best friend I never had. A lot of good ideas come from what I never had and cause my imagination to light up.

A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he’ll follow you anywhere…

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Those who have ears to hear, will hear

You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible

Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.