Victoria Principal Quotations

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

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

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

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction

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

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

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.

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

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

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

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.

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

We're going to succeed big or fail big, ... This is not a show that I think that you can just be ho-hum about. It's the 'Brady Bunch' on acid.

I loved Barbara and am deeply saddened by her passing. Barbara Bel Geddes will be missed by many, but God is in for a very good time.

Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of my lungs with perverted lyrics. And she loved it. I tried to get in touch a few times, but she really wanted to be on her own.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime and I can't wait to be one of the first Virgin Galactic customers into space.

I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.

There's got to be grief.