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" 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! "

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" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Life

Live

My Life

" It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there - then I realised how much I liked it. "

Olga Kurylenko

First

Never

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Work

Hard Work

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Work

Dream

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

" You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Mind

Personality

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Work

Top

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

" I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels. "

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Think

Men

" We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere! "

" What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further. "

" 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. "

" I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant. "

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Feel

People

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

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

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

" Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights. "

Olga Kurylenko

Shoot

Afraid