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 together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.
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.
Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
I love badminton. That's my sport!
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.
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.
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.
Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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.
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.
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.
We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.
When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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.
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.
I love it when a man cooks; it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.
I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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.
Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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.
When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there - then I realised how much I liked it.
I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.
I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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?
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.'
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!
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.'
To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.
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.
