Catriona Gray Quotes

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

I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

I really lived and breathed Miss Universe.

You can only do Miss Universe once, so take as many pictures as you can, enjoy, and have fun.

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

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

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.

Once a friend of mine applied on my behalf to enter the Miss Delhi, Face of 1993 contest. I soon fell in love with the concept and the ramp walks too.

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

It does feel great to be Miss Universe in the millennium year.

Being a beauty queen was never on my radar.

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 want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.

I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

I was Miss Chicago in 1946.

I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'

When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.