Beauty Pageant Quotes:

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

- Marc Marcel

topic: Truth Is, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

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

source: "Halle Berry's Insights Into Rocking Short Hair, Her Favorite Lip Product and More Beauty Secrets". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. February 11, 2015.

topic: Makeup, Pageant, Beauty Pageant, Playing Around

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

- Clay Aiken

topic: Winning, Hair, Trying, Pageant, Foreheads

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.

- Donna Rice Hughes

topic: New York, Cities, Missing, Carolina, Pageant

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

- Jude Law

topic: Giving, Directors, Actors, Make Me Angry, Pageant

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

- Bob Barker

topic: Usa, Missing, Unexpected, Cardinal Rules, Pageant

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

- Gabriela Isler

source: "Miss Universe Gabriela Isler Opens Up About The Anti-Chavez Twitter Controversy" by Lucia I. Suarez Sang, www.foxnews.com. November 21, 2013.

topic: Heart, Role Models, Feelings, Beauty Pageant

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

- Jay Leno

topic: America, Issues, Political, Miss America, Beauty Pageant

True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.

- Leslie Ludy

source: Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.23, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Queens, School, Years, Pageant, Finishing School

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,

- Hadley Freeman

source: "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

topic: Smart, Successful, Pockets, Successful Women, Pageant

Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

- Cintra Wilson

source: "Pissed about Palin". www.salon.com. September 10, 2008.

topic: Fun, Writing, Ghetto, Burqa, Beauty Pageant

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

- Pam Grier

source: "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

topic: Mother, Winning, Issues, Beauty Pageant

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

- Elizabeth Ray

topic: Disappointment, Ambition, People, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

- Dana Gould

source: FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 13, 2013

topic: Winning, People, Tornadoes, Toddler, Beauty Pageant

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

- Zooey Deschanel

topic: Women, Youth, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Marriage, Gay, Men, Stupidest, Stupid Celebrity

Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

- Dana Gould

topic: Children, Earthquakes, Parent, Beauty Pageant

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 make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

- Joyce Giraud

topic: Queens, Differences, People, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

- Rodney Crowell

source: Song: It's a Different World Now, Album: Fate's Right Hand, 2003

topic: Art, Children, Media, Beauty Pageant

I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty pageants for the experience, and to show my brains and talent and help break stereotypes. It wasn't like, "Oh, I'll become a star. I'm beautiful." I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup. When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have.

- Pam Grier

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Stress, Don't Stress, City Girl

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

- Susan Faludi

source: Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

topic: Years, America, Justice, Miss America, Equal Respect

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

- Joyce Giraud

topic: Queens, World, Kindergarten, Unesco, Pageant

The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

- Jay Leno

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Missing, Beauty Pageant