Pageants Quotes

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

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live my life by a certain way that I was proud of and to have those opportunities for scholarship.

As much as we joke around about 'The Bachelor' being the most dramatic show ever, Miss America really is an amazingly dramatic moment.

As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.

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

People associate pageants with glamour, where there are celebrities walking on the ramp wearing beautiful gowns, heels and make-up - but that's just one aspect.

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

Whether or not it is constitutionally permissible to include a crèche (or religious symbol of any faith) in the Pageant, it is certainly not required. For some American who are not Christians—American Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists—the inclusion of the crèche in the pageant is perceived as an indication that they are, at least to this extent, less than fully equal. For some Christians, inclusion of a crèche in a secular Christmas pageant borders on sacrilege.

History is a pageant, not a philosophy.

In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.