Elle Macpherson Quotes

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

Good, Women, Beautiful

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
Elle Macpherson

Greatest, Children, Focus

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.
Elle Macpherson

Peace, Good, Beautiful

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
Elle Macpherson

Successful, Passion, Enough

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
Elle Macpherson

Peace, Happy, Serenity

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

Time, Friends, Put

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.
Elle Macpherson

Inside, Outside, Anyway

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
Elle Macpherson

Children, Support, Choices

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
Elle Macpherson

Work, Happen, Working

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.
Elle Macpherson

Nothing, Acting, Modeling

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.
Elle Macpherson

Movies, Long, Find

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.
Elle Macpherson

Person, Mean, Public

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
Elle Macpherson

Great, Focus, Try

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
Elle Macpherson

Success, Sports, America

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?
Elle Macpherson

Enough, Creative, Value

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
Elle Macpherson

Movies, Choose, Role

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.
Elle Macpherson

Knowing, Everybody, Movie

I eat like a horse!
Elle Macpherson

I like to make movies I like to watch.
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

Time, Beautiful, Remember

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

Study, Wanted, Ballet

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

Understand, Before, America

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

Fun, Done, Stuff

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

Nothing, Everything, Fashion

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

Car, Nothing, Night

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Model

Born: March 29, 1964

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