Actress

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

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

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

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

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

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