Quotes by Olga Kurylenko

About Olga Kurylenko:

Olga Kostantinivna Kurylenko is a French actress and model. She was discovered as a model at the age of 13 and at the age of 16 moved from Ukraine to Paris to pursue a modeling career. Kurylenko started her acting career in 2005. She found success as an actress for her role as Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman (2007), and then rose to fame by playing Bond girl Camille Montes in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (2008). More recently she starred in Terrence Malick's To the Wonder (2012), and alongside Tom Cruise in Oblivion (2013) and Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner (2014).
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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 mo...

Olga Kurylenko

I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

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

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

Olga Kurylenko

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

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

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

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

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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.

Olga Kurylenko

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

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

Olga Kurylenko

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

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

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.

Olga Kurylenko

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

Olga Kurylenko

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

Olga Kurylenko

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

Olga Kurylenko

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

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

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Author Bio

  • NameOlga Kurylenko
  • DescriptionFrench actress and model
  • BornNovember 14, 1979
  • CountrySoviet Union
  • ProfessionActor; Model