That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

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.

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

I've never considered failure.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.