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" 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. "

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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! "

Olga Kurylenko

You

Knowledge

Going

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

People

Myself

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

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

" 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 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. "

" My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself. "

" America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not? "

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Childhood

Beach

" A lot of movies are made to make us dream. "

Olga Kurylenko

Lot

Dream

" 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 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 see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Olga Kurylenko

Work

Thought

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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

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

" 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. "

" 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 love badminton. That's my sport! "

" 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. "