Elle Macpherson Quotes

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

I am a public figure, but there are limits. I have the right to some tranquillity.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

I've had enough of being public property.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Don't get in my personal life.

I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.

I can handle rumors about me. But I don't like things being written about my wife and my family. They don't need to pay a price for me being a star.

The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

I understand that when you become a public figure, people pay more attention to you, but my personal life is my space.

I don't like questions that delve into my personal life.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I don't like being a celebrity.

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.