Olga Kurylenko Quotes

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Olga Kurylenko

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 14, 1979

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

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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.

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

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

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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

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

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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.

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

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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

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

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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!

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

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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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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.

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

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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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