Victoria Beckham Quotes:

I can't concentrate in flats.

source: - "'I Can't Concentrate in Flat Shoes,' Explains High-heel Addict Victoria Beckham". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 15, 2008.

Topics: Fashion, Flats

There need to be more women supporting women. Not just in fashion, in general.

Topics: Fashion, Needs

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

Topics: Fashion, Feels, I Love Fashion, Love Fashion

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fake People, High Heels, Practice, Stiletto Heels

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

Topics: Sexy, Clever, Way

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

Topics: Believe, Kids, Hard Work, Good Work Ethic

I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

Topics: Fashion, Trying, Trends

I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks - or side kicks - or whatever they're called.

Topics: Football, Sides, Sometimes

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

Topics: Fashion, Thinking, My Smile

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

Topics: Supermodel

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.

Topics: Real, Men, Shoes, Good Sense Of Humor, Gold Shoes

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.

Topics: Looks, Littles, Paparazzi

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.

Topics: Fashion, Thinking, Shapes

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

Topics: Mean, Anorexia, Obsessed

It is dog friendly nail polish, before we even go there because I know that is an issue. She's a bulldog, she needs all the help she can get. We've tried to feminize her a little bit and make her feel sexy!

Topics: Sexy, Dog, Issues, Bulldogs, Nail Polish

I can't concentrate in flats. I could go to the gym if I wore flats, I'd love to go to the gym, but I just can't get my head around the footwear.

Topics: Fashion, Footwear, Flats

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Hits Out at Critics Accusing Her of Looking Gaunt and Miserable". www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2012.

Topics: Lying, Tired, Motherhood, Happy With My Life

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.

Topics: Running, Morning, Team, Juggling, Skype

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

Topics: Funny, Dumb, Smirk

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

Topics: Running, Home, Nannies, Tesco, Housekeepers

[My boys] bloody well will work. Same as myself, same as David. They're not going to be the kinds of kids that just hang about. I want them to be able to fulfill their passions, but I think it's important that the children grow up and have respect for themselves.

Topics: Mom, Growing Up, Children

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

Topics: Perfect, Dresses, Aim

Everybody changes. 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.

Topics: Fashion, Past, Makeup, I Love Fashion

Some wedges are great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement.

Topics: Feet, Looks, Like You

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

Topics: Dragons, People, House, Moats, Big Houses

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts

Topics: Fashion, Trends, Instinct

Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'

Topics: Fashion, Son, Week, Fashion Week

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.

Topics: Kids, Thinking, Might

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.

Topics: Husband, Children, Freak, Take Me Away

You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.

Topics: Sex, Dirty, Goal, Dirty Talk

I don't have any issues with my age.

Topics: Issues, Age

Hold on to your knickers, girls!

Topics: Girl, Knickers

You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it

Topics: Special, Dresses, Special Occasion

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.

Topics: Thinking, Shoes, People

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

Topics: Stills

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

Topics: Realistic, Boundaries

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

Topics: Fashion, I Love Fashion, Love Fashion

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

Topics: Birthday, Children, Believe

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

Topics: Girl, Appreciate, Looks

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

Topics: Made, Compulsory

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

Topics: Running, Boys, Three

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

Topics: Fashion, School, Kids, School Uniforms

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

Topics: Football, Goal

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

Topics: Believe, People, Care

I believe in creative visualization.

source: - "Victoria Beckham is too busy boning David to worry about his high-pitched voice". Marie Claire Interview with Kevin Sessums, October 06, 2010.

Topics: Believe, Creative, Visualization, Creative Visualization

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

Topics: Ducks, America, Water, Positive Person, Visualization

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

Topics: Hands, Attention, Pay, Attention To Detail

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.

Topics: Important, Saving, Remember

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.

Topics: Big Fish, Ponds, Tiny, Fish Tanks

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

Topics: Irritated, Hell, Wells

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

Topics: Girl, Fashion, People, Spice Girls

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

source: - "How Victoria Beckham got her body back after baby". www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2012.

Topics: Obsessive

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

Topics: Fun, Having Fun, Way

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

Topics: Want, Empires

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

Topics: Vegetables, Healthy, Fruit, Junk Food

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

Topics: Sitting, Hollywood, Boring, Boring Person

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

source: - Interview with Jeanne Wolf, parade.com. July 16, 2007.

Topics: Children, Husband, Blessed

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.

source: - "Victoria Beckham is ELLE’s March cover star". www.elle.com. January 1, 2013.

Topics: Hands, People, Trying

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

Topics: People, Needs, Feels

Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.

Topics: Long, Nails, Drink, Coordinates

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

Topics: Accepting

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

Topics: Mother, Thinking, Careers

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.

Topics: Easter, Children, Night, Nativity, Bonnets

The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

Topics: Pieces, Shapes, Looks, Tactile

Everyone's showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn't wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.

Topics: Jeans, Lines, Underwear, Knickers, Thongs

Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.

Topics: Gay, Men, Want

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

Topics: Children, Husband, Make Me Smile

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

Topics: Girly, Way, Feminine

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.

Topics: Couple, Party, Years, Affectionate

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

Topics: Girl, People, Spices, Spice Girls

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!

Topics: Fashion, Yesterday, Different, Different Shapes And Sizes

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

Topics: Issues, Age, Want

And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.

source: - "Why Victoria Beckham Admits She Was Once 'a Bit of a Laughingstock'" by Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2014.

Topics: Laughing, Foundation, Busy

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.

Topics: Thinking, Dancer, Relax

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

Topics: Proud, British, Brands

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.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Covers Allure Magazine’s March Issue, Looks Pretty ‘Natural’ To Us" by Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

Topics: Believe, Hard Work, Enough

I spent the whole summer with my ***** out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.

Topics: Summer, Heaven, Breastfeeding

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

Topics: Emotional, Thinking, People, Mascara

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

Topics: Dancer, Acting, Singers

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

Topics: Giving, Competition

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.

Topics: Appreciate, Looks, Red, Red Lips

If you can get your head around your dream it means your dream isn't big enough.

Topics: Dream, Mean, Enough

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

Topics: Successful, Mind, Wish

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.

source: - "Victoria Beckham: I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2014.

Topics: Lying, Thinking, Clothes, Beckham

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Humble, Thinking, Arrogant

So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

Topics: Home, Cutting, Numbers

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.

source: - "Victoria Beckham: I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2014.

Topics: Successful, Used, Feels

It's such an old-fashioned attitude to make people feel like they're not good enough for your clothes. That's so negative and so old-fashioned and wrong.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Attitude, Clothes, People

I can live with my own mistakes. I can't live with anybody else's.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Mistake, My Own, I Can

Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: People, Getting Older, Sometimes

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Age, Privilege, Elegance

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

source: - "MarieClaire.com Exclusive: Victoria Beckham Tells All". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Given, Workers, Expected

When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention. I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got. I work out to look the best that I can.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Makeup, Hair, Work Out, Supermodel, Hair And Makeup

He (David Beckham) does have a huge one, though. He does. You can see it in the advert. It is all his. It is like a tractor exhaust pipe!

Topics: Doe, Tractors, Beckham, Adverts

Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I love that strangeness.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Strong, Fun, Optimistic

What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes.

Topics: Running, Shoes, Machines, Flat Shoes

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

source: - "Victoria Beckham For i-D: Designer Dishes Out Clothing Advice" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

Topics: Fashion, Trends, Instinct

I never take anything for granted. I think it's very cool to still get excited about things. I get as excited now as I ever did when I get a chauffeur driven car pick me up and I stay in a fantastic hotel or get to fly in a private plane. I never want to get blasé.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Thinking, Car, Pick Me Up, Very Cool, Chauffeurs

I am eating more. I think you do eat more when you're working out. And you want to eat healthily, so it's good all round.

source: - "I'm happier now than I've ever been". www.mirror.co.uk. June 28, 2009.

Topics: Thinking, Work Out, Want

WHETHER YOU'VE GOT $20 TO SPEND IN TOPSHOP OR $2.000 TO SPEND AT GUCCI, LOOKING GOOD ISN'T ABOUT MONEY. IT’S ABOUT STYLE, AND STYLE NEVER GOES OUT OF FASHION

Topics: Fashion, Style, Topshop, Gucci

I’m smiling on the inside. I feel I have a responsibility to the fashion community.

Topics: Fashion, Responsibility, Community

Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Growing Up, Fun, Mean, Becoming Famous

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.

source: - "Victoria Beckham, Working Girl". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2013.

Topics: Looks, Littles, Paparazzi, Daft

I take care of myself. I work out every day. I eat healthy. But I like to have fun too.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Fun, Work Out, Healthy

I've been in the public eye 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.

source: - Source: www.marieclaire.com

Topics: Eye, Years, Fame

If in doubt, anything looks good with a white shirt.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: White, Doubt, Looks, White Shirts

Wearing short skirts while dancing to a manic routine without showing your knickers or looking indecent is a talent, as far as I'm concerned.

source: - Source: www.rollingstone.com

Topics: Dancing, Talent, Manic

I don’t want to be seen smiling, having fun, or eating.

Topics: Fun, Having Fun, Want

I’m a gay man in a woman’s body.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Gay, Men, Body, Women's Bodies

In my store, anyone and everyone is welcome.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Welcome, Stores

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Years, Dresses, Pieces

I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Shy, Asking, Want

Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Fire

We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.

Topics: Way, Weight, Threat, Kidnapping

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

Topics: World, Want, I Can

I have no intention of ever working with the (Spice) girls again.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Girl, Spices, Intention, Spice Girls

Some people aren't satisfied that I'm a gay man in a woman's body and swear that I'm secretly a real boy.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Real, Gay, Boys

I don't wear heels every day, but when I'm out, that's how I feel confident.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Feels, Heels

Fame is not like a jacket. You can't put it on and then take it off.

source: - "MarieClaire.com Exclusive: Victoria Beckham Tells All". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Fame, Jackets

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Fashion, Mistake, Color, Gut Instinct

More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.

source: - Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

Topics: Girl, Spices, Married, Spice Girls

The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Girl, Writing, People

Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Sunglasses, Pairs, Sin

It's not healthy to be jealous.

source: - "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

Topics: Jealous, Healthy, Being Jealous