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Modelling killed me.
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.
I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.
I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.
I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.
Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.
I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.
Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.
I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
If you feel like you're helping someone else, it helps you feel more in control of your world.
When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.
I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years
I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.
You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously.
I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.
I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.
I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.
That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.
What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.
I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.
I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.
When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.
I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something.
I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.
Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.
I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.
Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.
I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!
Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.