Ambition Quote by Joyce Giraud

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel,…

— Joyce Giraud

I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live my life…

— Hannah Brown

Pageantry is something I celebrate and support and... the role of these winners is to be an ambassador for everybody, whatever race, color or…

— Shanna Moakler

I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but…

— Abbey Curran

When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.

— Urvashi Rautela

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and…

— Joyce Giraud

I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for pageants. And the reason I got involved is because I wanted to give…

— Shanna Moakler

I think pageants like Miss Universe give young women a platform to follow the field we want, a platform to voice our opinions and…

— Lara Dutta

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to…

— Joyce Giraud

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good…

— Amanda Latona

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

— Adam Lambert

I've seen a bunch of movies about pageants, and I know in general how they work.

— Danielle Macdonald