Top 55 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.

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

I’ll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I’d just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I’d always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I’ve always regarded fire as my friend.

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

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 love badminton. That’s my sport!

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.

I’ve always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I’d always return home with a handful of prizes.

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

Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film – that’s the requirement. If you stop, he’ll tell you, ‘No, no, keep moving.’ You can’t be static. It’s a choreography.

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

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

When you’re never home and traveling, you don’t play videogames.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I’m very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, ‘Oh, I went out and bought something and didn’t realise how much it was,’ but there’s no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

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

I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn’t even know I was a model.

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

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.

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.

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 provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that’s real.

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, ‘Okay, that’s enough, I have to start doing something.’ I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

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.

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 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.

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.

When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, ‘You should buy something else!’ I was saving the money because it was the first time I’d ever had any.

Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film – that’s the requirement. If you stop, he’ll tell you, ‘No, no, keep moving.’ You can’t be static. It’s a choreography.

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

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.

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 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.

I wasn’t, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested – but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

I wasn’t, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested – but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

I know how addictive videogames are – I have friends who can’t get up off the couch because they’re so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

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.

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

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

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.

All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be ‘Hitman.’

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 just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it’s me. I’m very French.

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.

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