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Victoria Principal
American
Actress
About the author
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?
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Day
#Thought
When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Women
#Employees
When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Work
#Women
When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Day
#Joy
When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Woman
#Feet
#Maturity
Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Children
#Help
#Violence
#Women
#Victory
Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Being
#Sense
#Satisfaction
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Men
#Woman
#Business
#Advice
I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Being
I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Society
#America
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#People
#Worry
I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Thinking
You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#People
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Being
#Management
#Manager
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Life
#Care
#Skin
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Women
I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Public
#Trying
I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Parents
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Excellence
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Years
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Play
#Girls
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Ignorance
As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Mind
#Body
It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Forget
#Being
It used to be you wanted to marry up.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Work
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Intelligence
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.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Success
I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
Victoria Principal,
American
Actress
#Money
#Car
#Job
#Dream
#Girls