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" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Friend

Love

Fire

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First

Never

" 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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Mind

Personality

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

" We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can. "

" You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex. "

" 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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" 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

" 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? "

" 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 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

" 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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Back

Face

" 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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Olga Kurylenko

Lot

Dream

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

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

" Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. "

Olga Kurylenko

Memories

Feelings

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" I love badminton. That's my sport! "

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

" 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 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. "