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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.' "

Olga Kurylenko

You

America

Funny

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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. "

Olga Kurylenko

Mind

Personality

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

" 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. "

" I never exercise, and I eat everything. "

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

Olga Kurylenko

Shoot

Afraid

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks. "

Olga Kurylenko

Feel

Romantic

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

" 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. "

" A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Olga Kurylenko

Memories

Feelings

" 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

" 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