Urvashi Rautela Quotes

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

I was Miss Chicago in 1946.

One minute I was a PR intern, the next I was Miss South Africa.

After winning the Miss India title at the age of 16, I resumed my studies.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.

We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in Miss USA - I'm five foot three, I'm not a model, and I never wanted to be one.

To be brutally honest, when you win a title like Miss Universe, your entire life turns topsy-turvy for one year.

I was 19 or 20 when I won Miss India and then did some exciting work in fashion.

Hosting the Miss America Pageant is a job all TV hosts dream of one day holding.

My aim has always been to win the Miss World title.

Winning a beauty pageant and the Miss India title was always a dream.

Ever since Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai made headlines, every other girl in India wants to be a beauty queen. I was no exception.

I prepared myself for Miss Universe for a very long time, for years, and I would always try to imagine what it would be like to introduce myself as Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe.

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

I'm glad that I get to take my final walk as the princess of 2012. ...there's nothing wrong with winning an Oscar!

There's something about winning Miss America that brings out the snark.

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

I kinda miss having Miss USA around.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

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

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.