Power is making a statement about who you are.

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.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

It's a sin only if it harms you

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Bodybuilding has been my life; if it weren't for bodybuilding, I don't know what I'd be doing. I look at bodybuilding as who I am.