Wit & Attitude Quote by Milla Jovovich

“It’s going to seem idiotic to say this” is the tell: Jovovich frames her need as a guilty confession, not a right. That pre-apology does cultural work. Models, especially in the late-’90s/early-2000s celebrity economy that made her famous, are expected to be endlessly available: camera-ready, socially fluent, perpetually “on.” Privacy becomes suspect, mistaken for arrogance or diva behavior. So she defuses the judgment before it arrives.

Her phrasing is clumsy on purpose, or at least honest about its own clumsiness: “refuge ourselves,” “cut ourselves off.” It’s not the polished self-care slogan of a wellness influencer; it’s a working person describing a survival mechanism. The repetition of “ourselves” underlines a tension between a public-facing body and a private interior life. If your image is your job, the self is both product and refuge. You’re selling access while craving withdrawal.

“Place to ourselves” reads literally (a room, a home, a closed door) and psychologically (a boundary). The word “refuge” carries an almost wartime charge, turning ordinary solitude into shelter from a hostile environment. In that subtext, “the world” isn’t nature or community; it’s the grinding apparatus of attention, commentary, and expectation. Jovovich’s intent isn’t to romanticize loneliness. It’s to normalize strategic disappearance as maintenance - a way to reclaim agency when your identity is constantly being consumed.