Olga Kurylenko Quotes

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Olga Kurylenko

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 14, 1979

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.

Olga Kurylenko

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.'

Olga Kurylenko

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

Olga Kurylenko

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

Olga Kurylenko

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

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 - and they do.

Olga Kurylenko

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.

Olga Kurylenko

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.

Olga Kurylenko

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.

Olga Kurylenko

I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

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 nothing.

Olga Kurylenko

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.

Olga Kurylenko

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

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 in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

Olga Kurylenko

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

Olga Kurylenko

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.'

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 of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

Olga Kurylenko

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

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.

Olga Kurylenko

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

Olga Kurylenko