Top 100 Olga Quotes
#1. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
Dorothy Hamill
#2. Cool it," cried Olga. "Working hard is what I do! Can't be perfect. Going to school not cheap and what are you doing here, a beauty nobody want. My first year was ok, only five or ten times knocked down, then later more and more. He says I'm no lady and gotta work harder for his dollar.
J.M.K. Walkow
#3. There is no disgrace in learning," said Olga Ciavolga. "But caution is a good thing when you travel in the unknown.
Lian Tanner
#4. I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
Bobby Fischer
#5. Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him. It was all he wanted in the world. It was the last thing in the world that he could do.
Graham Spaid
#6. Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun.
Gordon Korman
#7. [Olga's dreams of happiness:] Get married, always live in the countryside winter and summer, see only good people, no one official.
Helen Azar
#8. Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.
Michelle Obama
#9. Madame Olga began muttering something under her breath in gypsy to the effect of "Fucking debutantes, they do not understand the sacredness of the moment." But everyone in the room just thought this was part of her gypsy spirit chant.
Amy Ephron
#10. From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.
Michael Bond
#11. I often wondered if she was accusing me of starting the war, though in Olga's eyes that would have been the least of my crimes.
J.G. Ballard
#12. As I left, promising to mention her to my father, Olga said: Now you can play hide-and-seek in the whole
world.
J.G. Ballard
#13. Then I had a continental breakfast with freshly squeezed orange juice, half a bagel with goat cheese, and a green smoothie, all served on a silver tray by my maid, Olga, right in my bedroom.
Rachel Renee Russell
#14. Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.
Olga Korbut
#15. I was captivated. My own hair was easily as long as Olga's, but it frizzed and knotted at every opportunity. When it was combed, it didn't float in perfect fans down to my shoulders.
Megan Whalen Turner
#16. I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell.
Rebekah Armusik
#17. Some things in life are just to complicated to explain in any language.'
Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.
Haruki Murakami
#18. I give pleasure to you. Do not interfere..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa
#19. I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
Olga Korbut
#20. Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.
Olga Broumas
#21. I suspect I do not like kisses in general--perhaps my blood is stirred by poetry alone--but I have no grounds for comparison.
Olga Grushin
#22. My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
Olga Kurylenko
#23. With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
Olga Kurylenko
#24. All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
Olga Kurylenko
#25. Forget everything that surrounds you. Think that there's just you and me in this wide world.
Olga Goa
#26. When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
Olga Kurylenko
#27. And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
Olga Korbut
#28. America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
Olga Kurylenko
#29. I'm afraid that if we move on to such topics, I won't be able to let you go safe and sound.
Olga Goa
#30. If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
Olga Kurylenko
#31. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#32. But as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.
Olga Grushin
#33. I swear I won't touch you even with a finger until you ask me yourself.
Olga Goa
#34. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#35. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#36. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#37. Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
Olga Masters
#38. I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
Olga Kurylenko
#39. I don't want you to leave. I want you to stay.
Olga Goa
#40. Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
Olga Kurylenko
#41. I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
Olga Kurylenko
#42. I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
Olga Kurylenko
#43. If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
Olga Korbut
#44. Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
Olga Korbut
#45. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#46. 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!
Olga Kurylenko
#47. I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.
Olga Kurylenko
#48. This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
Olga Korbut
#49. Don't be shy, dear. I'm too old for you to be embarrassed by me.
Olga Goa
#50. But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
Olga Korbut
#51. I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
Olga Kurylenko
#52. You can't push me away, mio cuore. You can't!
Olga Goa
#53. Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
Olga Kurylenko
#54. I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.
Olga Kurylenko
#55. You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
Olga Kurylenko
#56. You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion:
Olga Goa
#57. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#59. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#60. I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
Olga Korbut
#61. I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
Olga Kurylenko
#62. Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.
Olga Korbut
#63. I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
Olga Kurylenko
#64. I'm giving pleasure to you. Don't interfere.
Olga Goa
#65. It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
Olga Korbut
#66. I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
Olga Korbut
#67. It's just like in a Brazilian serial! Destiny has brought us together.
Olga Goa
#68. No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.
Olga Kurylenko
#69. I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa
#70. I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko
#71. Stop smiling as if I've been acquainted with you for ages!
Olga Goa
#72. 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!
Olga Kurylenko
#73. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#74. 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.'
Olga Kurylenko
#75. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#76. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#77. If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes.
Olga Goa
#78. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#79. I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
Olga Broumas
#80. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#81. A brave girl! And a unique one. The best that I have ever met in my life.
Olga Goa
#82. When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
Olga Kurylenko
#83. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#84. But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
Olga Korbut
#85. If you were three times poor, I would still have paid attention to you and fell head over heels in love with you.
Olga Goa
#86. Oh and finding happiness in the small things, my dear, that's really nothing to brag about - it's the last consolation of those whose imaginations have failed them.
Olga Grushin
#87. The real explanations are usually the simplest, and often the saddest.
Olga Grushin
#88. I need only you, Milano, not your money.
Olga Goa
#89. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
Olga Kurylenko
#90. I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
Olga Kurylenko
#91. And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
Olga Korbut
#92. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#93. Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.
Olga Kurylenko
#94. I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
Olga Kurylenko
#95. I think the word 'pleasure' is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning.
Olga Goa
#96. If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.
Olga Kurylenko
#97. 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.
Olga Kurylenko
#98. And don't start thinking about that boy's shirt again, or one day you may find yourself laundering it.
Olga Grushin
#100. Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Olga Goa
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