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“I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.”
“I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.”
“My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.”
“What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.”
“With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.”
“We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!”
“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.”
“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 don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.”
“I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.”
“I love badminton. That's my sport!”
“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.”
“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'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.”
“As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.”
“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.”
“I never exercise, and I eat everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”