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

One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

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

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.