'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.

Since I wore a bikini at the Miss India pageant, I have no inhibitions wearing it on screen.

Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty.

We gotta execute, and our guys have to be on the same page and play 100 percent.

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.

We've been married for 60 years. We don't buy anything anymore without being on the same page.

I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

I live for the blank page.

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, myself, and even Bill Goldberg, for crying out loud, main-eventing Wrestlemania. That is WCW's legacy.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.