A biography for Olga Kurylenkohasn’t been written yet.
“Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.”
“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.”
“I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.”
“I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.”
“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?”
“I like men who paint or write or do something creative.”
“A lot of movies are made to make us dream.”
“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've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!”
“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 was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.”
“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.”
“My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.”
“Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.”
“Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.”
“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.”
“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.”