Olga Kurylenko

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

— Olga Kurylenko

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

— Olga Kurylenko

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

— Olga Kurylenko

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And…

— Olga Kurylenko

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better…

— Olga Kurylenko

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an…

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see…

— Olga Kurylenko

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined…

— Olga Kurylenko

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We…

— Olga Kurylenko

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces…

— Olga Kurylenko

Love and faith are both a search, a process, it doesn't stay the same; it comes and goes. In some people, it's…

— Olga Kurylenko

I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I…

— Olga Kurylenko

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love…

— Olga Kurylenko

Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head…

— Olga Kurylenko

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…

— Olga Kurylenko

I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while…

— Olga Kurylenko

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay,…

— Olga Kurylenko

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we…

— Olga Kurylenko

I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a…

— Olga Kurylenko

I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

— Olga Kurylenko

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman…

— Olga Kurylenko

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…

— Olga Kurylenko

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means…

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko

In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

— Olga Kurylenko

To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Olga Kurylenko