Victoria Principal Quotes

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.