Olga Kurylenko Quotes

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

There's this image of us on the red carpet, being really fancy, and then there's the reality.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

At home I wear my own clothes, no makeup and don't do anything exciting with my hair. I get to borrow pretty dresses for the red carpet and have experts do my hair and makeup.

You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.

I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

In TV, you get driven to work in a luxury car, and find flowers in your dressing room. Then suddenly you're on tour, drying your hair backstage on plastic curtains.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?