Zitat des Tages von Olga Kurylenko:
I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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.
To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.
I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.
Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
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. You know?
I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!
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.
To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.
I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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 did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
I never exercise, and I eat everything.
If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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.
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.
I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.