Victoria Beckham Quotes

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

- Victoria Beckham

Like, Which, Took, Duck

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

- Victoria Beckham

Doing, Signature, Very, Brands

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

- Victoria Beckham

Say, Feminine, Any, Girly

I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.

- Victoria Beckham

Makeup, Bed, Very, Girly

I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Behind, Been, Believer

My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

- Victoria Beckham

Thought, Jennifer, Different Shapes

I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

- Victoria Beckham

Positive, Believe, Real, Crystals

The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

- Victoria Beckham

Glass, Always, Half Full, Crystals

Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!

- Victoria Beckham

Doing, Everybody, Chased, Paparazzi

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

- Victoria Beckham

Tell, Realized, Hollywood, Paparazzi

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.

- Victoria Beckham

Humble, Woman, I Think, Multitude

I see a dermatologist in L.A. called Dr. Harold Lancer, who is incredible. I've known him for years - he sorted my skin out.

- Victoria Beckham

Skin, Incredible, I See, Sorted

I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Career, Lucky, Full-On

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

- Victoria Beckham

Work, Work Hard, Achieve, Ethic

The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Big, Going, Grin

The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.

- Victoria Beckham

Dress, Everybody, Which, Spice Girls

When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

- Victoria Beckham

Thought, Spice, Other, Spice Girls

I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

- Victoria Beckham

Been, Maintain, Very, Public Eye

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

- Victoria Beckham

Want, Big, Keep, Dragons

I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.

- Victoria Beckham

Fruit, Vegetables, Very, Eater

Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

- Victoria Beckham

Good, Friends, Good Friends

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

- Victoria Beckham

Career, Think, Very, Suited

I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.

- Victoria Beckham

Lucky, Living, Very, Hills

I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.

- Victoria Beckham

Good, Got, About, Trainers

Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

- Victoria Beckham

Bed, Smith, Added, Trainers

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

- Victoria Beckham

Role, Telling, Constantly, Fade

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

- Victoria Beckham

London, Other, Studio, Gown

It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

- Victoria Beckham

Great, More, Need, Supporting

When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

- Victoria Beckham

Big, I Think, Very, Structured

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

- Victoria Beckham

Think, Town, I Think, OK

Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

- Victoria Beckham

Think, Town, I Think, OK

I like to think of my customer and make sure that season after season she is getting what she wants. Ultimately, I suppose I have an image of myself. That is the person I am designing for - a woman who loves and appreciates fashion and luxury, and somebody who wants to feel empowered with the best version of themselves.

- Victoria Beckham

Best, Woman, Feel, Season

I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

- Victoria Beckham

Smiling, Think, Stopped, Stole

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

- Victoria Beckham

Sense Of Humor, Sense, Like, Card

People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

- Victoria Beckham

Shame, Social, Whoever, Social Media

We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.

- Victoria Beckham

Other, Very, Couple, Sitting

I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Through, Very, Shopping

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

- Victoria Beckham

Happy, Rumors, Back, Twenty

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

- Victoria Beckham

Me, Person, Well, Irritates

Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

- Victoria Beckham

Sometimes, Rumor, Quite, Laugh

I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.

- Victoria Beckham

Think, More, I Think, Screaming

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

- Victoria Beckham

Person, Very, Ambitious, Spiritual Person

I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.

- Victoria Beckham

Other, Very, About, Spiritual Person

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Made, I Love, Compulsory

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

- Victoria Beckham

Hands, Freak, Very, Control Freak

I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

- Victoria Beckham

Husband, Doing, Away, Control Freak

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

- Victoria Beckham

Trust, Sometimes, Got, Control Freak

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

- Victoria Beckham

Bag, Been, Mind-Blowing, Party

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

- Victoria Beckham

Birthday, Believe, Like, I Believe

I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

- Victoria Beckham

Work, Work Hard, Achieve, I Believe

My children are my priority and always have been.

- Victoria Beckham

Children, Always, Been, Priority

I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Children, I Love, Priority

I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.

- Victoria Beckham

Work, Work Hard, Natural, In The End

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

- Victoria Beckham

Say, About, Them, Bloody

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

- Victoria Beckham

Play, Parade, Easter, Great People

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

- Victoria Beckham

Identity, National, Individuality

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

- Victoria Beckham

Proud, British, Very, Brand

I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.

- Victoria Beckham

My Life, Other, Very, Radar

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Like, Sure, Empire

I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

- Victoria Beckham

Celebrity, Angles, Been, Red Carpet

I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.

- Victoria Beckham

Woman, Makeup, Like, Supermodel

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

- Victoria Beckham

Best, Got, Make, Supermodel

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

- Victoria Beckham

Doing, Away, Going, No Point

People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

- Victoria Beckham

Think, Always, Taller, Relatively

I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.

- Victoria Beckham

Dress, Been, Streamlined, Relatively

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

- Victoria Beckham

Practice, Big, Heels, Fake

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

- Victoria Beckham

Will, Find, Theater, Odd

The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

- Victoria Beckham

Queen, King, Patriotic, Currency

Sexy is about the way you wear something and being confident - the clothes are sexy and flattering. I've said right from the beginning, it's very important clothes are flattering. I want a woman to look and feel like the best version of herself.

- Victoria Beckham

Beginning, Woman, Very, Herself

There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

- Victoria Beckham

Other, Which, Types, Herself

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

- Victoria Beckham

Learn, Nothing, Expecting, Constructive

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

- Victoria Beckham

Music, Think, Particularly, Talented

I believe in creative visualization.

- Victoria Beckham

Believe, Visualization, I Believe In

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

- Victoria Beckham

School, Loved, Always, Uniforms

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

- Victoria Beckham

Boundaries, Know, Very, Realistic

Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

- Victoria Beckham

Some, I Think, Very, Version

After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?

- Victoria Beckham

Bed, Next, I Think, Catch

Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.

- Victoria Beckham

Sometimes, Prove, Other, Easier

Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Career, Very, Met

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

- Victoria Beckham

Smiling, Look, Down, Daft

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

- Victoria Beckham

More, Get, Physically, Older

Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.

- Victoria Beckham

Simple, Comfortable, Clothes

For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

- Victoria Beckham

Doing, Want, Able, Clothes

My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.

- Victoria Beckham

Think, Image, I Think, Sunglasses

I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.

- Victoria Beckham

Shape, Simplest, Correct, Size

I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I've done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Makeup, Back, Fashion

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

- Victoria Beckham

Work, Spice, More, Fashion

I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, How, I Love, Fashion

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

- Victoria Beckham

Try, Never, Trend, Fashion

I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Belong, I Love, Fashion

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

- Victoria Beckham

Product, Kind, Bags, Fashion

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

- Victoria Beckham

Doing, Confident, Spice, Fashion

We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.

- Victoria Beckham

Circus, Like, Traveling, Fashion

I looooove Miss Piggy.

- Victoria Beckham

Miss

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

- Victoria Beckham

Something, Get, Quite, Obsessive

It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Every Day, Over It, Obsessive

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

- Victoria Beckham

Me, Still, Even, Happened

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

- Victoria Beckham

Small, England, Big, Tiny

I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, I Love, Bodies, Luxury

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

- Victoria Beckham

Emotional, Wearing, About, Mascara

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

- Victoria Beckham

Feel, Need, Needs, Picture

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

- Victoria Beckham

Never, Give, Going, None

My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

- Victoria Beckham

Happy, Very, Bought, Fortunate

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

- Victoria Beckham

Very, Take, Young Girls, Seriously

I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

- Victoria Beckham

Like, Corners, Cutting, Laziness

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

- Victoria Beckham

Goal, Which, Surely, Football

I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

- Victoria Beckham

More, Lot, Least, Heels

When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.

- Victoria Beckham

Hair, Makeup, Dress, Attention

I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.

- Victoria Beckham

Woman, Other, No Time, Compliment

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

- Victoria Beckham

World, Reach, Want, Throughout

Strong women, that's who I really respect.

- Victoria Beckham

Respect, Strong, Really, Strong Women

First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.

- Victoria Beckham

Lucky, Like, Very, Foremost

I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.

- Victoria Beckham

Think, I Think, Feels, Sounds

I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Living, Which, Definitely

When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.

- Victoria Beckham

Doing, Young, Very, Somebody

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

- Victoria Beckham

Never, Singer, Dancer, Okay

It's not healthy to be jealous.

- Victoria Beckham

Jealous, Healthy

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.

- Victoria Beckham

Running, Keep, Fit, All Day

If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

- Victoria Beckham

Have Fun, Like, Along, Surreal

I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.

- Victoria Beckham

Time, Like, Get, No Time

I don't have any issues with my age.

- Victoria Beckham

Age, Any, Issues

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

- Victoria Beckham

Work, Children, Me, Husband

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

- Victoria Beckham

Aim, Create, Perfect, Dress

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

- Victoria Beckham

Remember, Important, Saving, Performer

I've only ever tried to be me.

- Victoria Beckham

Me, Only, Ever, Tried

I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.

- Victoria Beckham

Myself, Difficult, Like, Challenge

I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Very, I Love, Lucky

You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Country, I Love, Positive

I love America. It's such a positive country.

- Victoria Beckham

Love, Country, I Love, Positive

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

- Victoria Beckham

Myself, Wear, Would, Design

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