Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

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.

Mercy is mercy.

Captain?""Yeah?""Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?"He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

No person is too hardened.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.