Pageant Quotes

“What do you want ?"It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I’d probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.”

“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.”

“What’s the biggest problem facing teenagers today? Ourselves. We’re a generation of lazy underachievers who need to learn that hard work pays off. What’s your town known for? Cow manure! Hold for laughs... Actually Irondale is the setting of Fannie Flagg’s famous novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Why’d you enter the Junior Miss Birmingham pageant? To win... to go to State... then Nationals... maybe get the hell out of Alabama.”

“Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.”

“Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.”

“The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.”

“My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.”

“The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.”