Elle Macpherson Quotes

I think we've become a lot more urban.
~ Elle Macpherson

I try to put aside an hour a day, five days a week, to do some sort of physical exercise, whether it's Pilates or running in the park. But with two young children I don't always get that time.
~ Elle Macpherson

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
~ Elle Macpherson

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
~ Elle Macpherson

I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.
~ Elle Macpherson

I'd like to be in a place in my acting career where I could've done that and done a good job.
~ Elle Macpherson

I'd like to jump in and be the star, but I have to be realistic about my capacities. The better I get as an actor, the more range I'm going to have.
~ Elle Macpherson

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
~ Elle Macpherson

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway there to turning heads.
~ Elle Macpherson

I'm really excited and I loved the idea of playing on the word intimate. This particular collection is very sexy and sumptuous and different and I really wanted to focus on the lingerie and not necessarily me.
~ Elle Macpherson


I'm too old for that!
~ Elle Macpherson

I'm very fortunate because we're committed to co-parenting our children together.
~ Elle Macpherson

It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.
~ Elle Macpherson

It's crazy but, apart from a brief romantic intermission last summer, I have been single and celibate for two years. How boring is that? I just don't get men hitting on me, but I'm a hopeless flirt. I'll go up to a guy and say, 'I think you are so beautiful'. But it doesn't work.
~ Elle Macpherson

It's like the underwear in the sense that they are premium products at competitive prices. I spent a long time researching the products, and the philosophy is the same as the lingerie.
~ Elle Macpherson

It's more a kind of general osmosis that you receive when you're in the company of greatness. I feel like I'm kind of an apprentice on my movies.
~ Elle Macpherson

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
~ Elle Macpherson

I've always had an unusual career; I've never followed the industry norm.
~ Elle Macpherson

I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.
~ Elle Macpherson

I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.
~ Elle Macpherson

I've never spoken about my private life to confirm or deny, I just don't. I respect the people in my life, men and women, and they do not need to have their names mentioned as intimate, or not.
~ Elle Macpherson

My body type wasn't fashionable when I started, but it was commercial.
~ Elle Macpherson

Nudity has never been an issue for me - I'm Australian. It's more of a thing in America. I mean people can buy guns, yet it's against the law to be topless on the beach.
~ Elle Macpherson

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.
~ Elle Macpherson

The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.
~ Elle Macpherson

The thing about me being celibate? Strike that. Categorically not true.
~ Elle Macpherson

There's no purpose for me to have my every waking moment recorded. I don't particularly like seeing pictures of myself, unless it's related to a movie.
~ Elle Macpherson

This industry has been incredibly supportive of me and for that I'm very grateful. I owe it thanks for the life I've had: my independence, my capacity to express myself creatively in all different fields.
~ Elle Macpherson

Underwear is such an emotional thing.
~ Elle Macpherson

When I stepped out of the campaigns, we decided we'd focus on the word intimate and capture a model in a moment.
~ Elle Macpherson

With the anthology we've taken that concept one step further and we've asked certain people to give their opinion of what's going on. I like that intellectual side.
~ Elle Macpherson

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.
~ Elle Macpherson

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.
~ Elle Macpherson

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