Olga Kurylenko Quotes

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's asleep for a long time and then it wakes up as it evolves.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.

I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who cant get up off the couch because theyre so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain training if I have to be prepared physically. I think that's the most important thing.

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do. They can't just meet a woman and fall in love. And it's women's fault because they allow it.

When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.