When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

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.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Feeling like I had to lose you for the second time...” He shook his head, and I thought I saw tears under his eyes. “I don’t think I could bear it. You’re everything to me, Elizabeth.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

If I can entertain and expand awareness then I feel like I've fulfilled a purpose.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.

Who in their right mind wouldn't listen to what Larry Bird tells them? He knows what it takes to be a successful player, and he's letting us do the things to have the success.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.