You are beautiful, no matter what they say.

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.

She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?