I think rather than feeling persecuted that youre meeting up with a challenge simply because of the gender you belong to, I… — Aishwarya Rai Copy Share Image
I hate the whole tall-poppy syndrome. I don't want people to think it's all gone to my head, because it isn't. That's… — Jennifer Hawkins Copy Share Image
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself.… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those.… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
“Certain things are expected of you when you’re a demon. Take the grotesque bodies, for example. Powerful, lethal, but definitely not beauty… — Samantha Blake Copy Share Image
When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I would tell her to believe in herself because it is not only physical beauty that is important but also inner beauty.… — Ruffa Guttierez Copy Share Image
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and… — Hadley Freeman Copy Share Image
Priyanka Chopra has been my biggest inspiration. She has created her own brand and represented India not only in beauty pageants but… — Harnaaz Sandhu Copy Share Image
The pageant was such a fluke. I mean, I was living in an orphanage, and my foster mother bet me $150 to… — Charlotte Ayanna Copy Share Image
During my first summer in college, I travelled to California for the first time for a beauty pageant. It was solely for… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
Isn't it a little ironic here? We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Beauty is primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterance… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
At the age of 18, I had participated in a beauty pageant. I represented India and won the title. That was my… — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant… — Payal Rohatgi Copy Share Image
I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
We were standing together on stage and right before they started calling out the positions, one of the girls said, Best of… — Justine Pasek Copy Share Image
“He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image