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" My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself. "
Olga Kurylenko
Wear
Myself
Changes
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 love badminton. That's my sport! "
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" You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex. "
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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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Beginning
" I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know 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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" To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness. "
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" 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. "
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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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" As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character. "
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" I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go. "
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" 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.' "
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Me
" I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world. "
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Thoughts
Spiritual
See
" 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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Thought
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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 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.' "
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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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" People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere. "
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" Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. "
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" You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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" I like men who paint or write or do something creative. "
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