People think pageant girls are snotty, cutthroat, self-absorbed. Everybody that I meet in the industry is so kind, giving, and they are… — Nicole Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember when I was little, I watched the Miss Universe Pageant on TV and for several days afterwards, I imitated how… — Precious Lara Quigaman Copy Share Image
I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to… — Gabriela Isler Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly honored to have been the very first Miss California USA titleholder to have been crowned with the Legacy Crown.… — Nicole Johnson Copy Share Image
Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being Miss Universe is much more than having a sash and a crown. It is about taking pride in my commitment to… — Leila Lopes Copy Share Image
That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn't have to just be in her pageant gear… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I hope to see women thriving and happy, loving what they're doing, and being in control and powerful of what they create.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the… — Amy Jackson Copy Share Image
My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant… — Leonard Horn Copy Share Image
I look at pageants as a really wonderful thing to women. I think it helps a lot of women. It gives them… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
Winning the Miss Universe title was not only a personal victory but a victory for the whole rainbow nation. I couldn't be… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
“What do you want ?" It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean,… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
In India, I didn't have to struggle a lot since I was already a Miss India pageant winner. I could smoothly transition… — Pooja Batra Copy Share Image
The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
While I wasn't able to do my first walk' as Miss Universe during my pageant, at least I'll be able to do… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
So many people look up to pageants, including young girls and young boys. The message that I would hate to send to… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss… — Meagan Tandy Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was… — Priyanka Chopra 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
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;… — Virginia Woolf 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
I genuinely don't care about the 'number one' tag. That's not my goal. You know, no one does that with heroes, but… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new… — Katherine Webb Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
I think pageants like Miss Universe give young women a platform to follow the field we want, a platform to voice our… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
