Charlotte Ayanna Quotes

The pageant was such a fluke. I mean, I was living in an orphanage, and my foster mother bet me $150 to go out for this thing. Nobody, including myself, thought that a foster kid could be a beauty queen. - (on being Miss Teen USA 1993) - Charlotte Ayanna

Right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' - Charlotte Ayanna

It hit a little home for me, actually. Not the stripping, but seeing these people who haven't been handed the best card in life. - Charlotte Ayanna

Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers, but being young and having somebody like a director like Michael see me, and see something in me, and take a chance. And have a process like we have had. - Charlotte Ayanna

Dancing at the Blue Iguana. - Charlotte Ayanna

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