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" When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames. "
Olga Kurylenko
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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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" 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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" My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself. "
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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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" 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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" In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant. "
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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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" Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine. "
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" Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. "
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" Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights. "
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" I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession. "
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" When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris. "
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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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" To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness. "
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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've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" A lot of movies are made to make us dream. "
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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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" 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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" With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real. "
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" We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can. "
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" I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory! "
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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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" 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. "
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