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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.”

“I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.”

“I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.”

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

“I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!”

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

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

“I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.”

“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.”

“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.”