Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Victoria Principal.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Vicki Ree Principal, later known as Victoria Principal, is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera series Dallas. She spent nine years on the long-running series, leaving in 1987. Afterwards, she opened her own production company, Victoria Principal Productions, focusing mostly on television films. In the mid-1980s, she became interested in natural beauty therapies, and in 1989, she created a self-named line of skincare products, Principal Secret.
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
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.
I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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 arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
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 enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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?
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
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 was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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.
It used to be you wanted to marry up.
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.
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
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.
As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream
There's got to be grief.
Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women
I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well
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
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 was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal
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
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 about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that
I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men
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