When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

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.

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

We've even developed a new council with Canada to promote women's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

Tension of opposites.

I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.