Victoria Principal

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

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

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

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

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

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

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

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