Olivia Culpo

If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

American Actress

Lara Dutta

Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what's important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.

Indian Actress

Hannah Brown

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.

American Celebrity

Joyce Giraud

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.

Puerto Rican Actress

Shanna Moakler

Most women in pageants love the actual pageant - the competition, the show. They don't understand that it is actually a real job that you are paid a real salary for.

Sobhita Dhulipala

Miss Earth, to me, means a lot more than an international beauty pageant. It implies a larger than life celebration of spirit, beauty, passion, and betterment.

Manushi Chhillar

I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to be at a beauty pageant at least once in life.

Indian Model

Catriona Gray

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

Filipino Model

Urvashi Rautela

When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.

Katherine Webb

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

American Model

Pageants often involve planned events, from talent displays to storytelling, usually with elaborate costumes or decorations.

Staged Events

Pageants are sometimes rooted in local culture or history, providing a sense of community pride.

Local Traditions

Pageants are frequently associated with holidays and can depict related scenes or stories.

Holiday Associations

Beauty pageants are competitions where participants are judged on qualities like appearance, talent, and poise.

Competitive Nature

In pageants, entrants compete in various categories such as swimwear, evening gown, and interview segments.

Structured Categories

Winners of beauty pageants often receive titles based on the level of the competition, like 'Miss City' or 'Miss Nation'.

Title Rewards

The word 'pageant' can be used metaphorically to describe any vivid, elaborate presentation, not just literal shows.

Metaphorical Usage

Pageants can be recreations of historical events, emphasizing learning through visual display.

Historical References

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Jehane Noujaim: TEDPrize...

 and she showed me that it was a lot more than beauty. She said, 'for me to participate in these pageants,' She said, 'I have to have the knowledge of my language, I have to have a knowledge of my culture,' and she goes, 'most importantly, the knowledge of my 'immediate family, my grandmother did this. 'I wanted to walk in the footsteps of my grandmother

Erika Larsen: People of...

 actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater must be built outside the city wall. One of the first theaters was built like a larger version of a pageant,

The emergence of drama...

 or the girl with the walker and the communication device who is a precious little angel. This story rears its head in my daughter's life around Christmastime, when certain people get positively giddy at the thought of seeing her in angel's wings and a halo at the pageant.

"Good" and "bad" are...

 continents to explore cultural notions of beauty and attraction I tried to explore the the commercial side of beauty and how concepts of beauty have become distorted around the world I mean this doesn't exist in nature please this is a children's beauty pageant she's six

Jodi Cobb: What Is...

 cheering on their little darling, having poured millions of dollars into this hoping against hope that the humans screw up, and holding up "Go Watson" signs and just applauding like pageant moms every time their little darling got one right.

Ken Jennings: Watson,...

 positive, life-changing events that have happened to me are thanks to those people who are different than me. It was at this moment that I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and compete in a pageant wearing a hijab and burkini.

How I went from child...

 I want to be an actor right that's folks he knew what my passion was my a school teacher cast me and this was in grammar school or even okay she cast me in my first acting role a Thanksgiving pageant

George Takei and the...

 I won best in swimsuit and best in long gown and placed second runner up among 40-plus candidates. That moment changed my life. All of a sudden, I was introduced to the world of beauty pageants.

Why I must come out PIPE...

 pageants and be Miss Venetian these young ladies they're really unique you guys all look beautiful to be in that project you have to put your sheet