Act your age Quote by Rodney Crowell

Putting your child into a beauty pageant is a disgrace...

— Anonymous

So many people look up to pageants, including young girls and young boys. The message that I would hate to send to them is…

— Catriona Gray

Youth icons are born through beauty pageants.

— Harnaaz Sandhu

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

— Halle Berry

I realize there's a line between looking good and being an embarrassment. I don't want to be one of those dames who is trying…

— Mamie Van Doren

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

— Julie Burchill

Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

— Ronnie James Dio

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to…

— George Harrison

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

— Anne Hathaway

I would not let my children act when they are young!

— Keri Russell

I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.

— Hannah Brown

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

— Cynthia Nixon