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Olga Kurylenko
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius. "
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" 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. "
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" Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. "
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" 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. "
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" I love boats. I can be on a boat for days. "
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" On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love badminton. That's my sport! "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Live
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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End
Divorce
Beginning
" 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. "
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" With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory! "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Off
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession. "
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" As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character. "
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" 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.' "
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