- "I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves."
- "I worked like hell {on The Fifth Element}. No band practice, no clubs, no pot, nothing."
- "If this movie was made in America they would have had a guy and we would have been his harem or entourage. Big studios don't trust that women will bring in that kind of audience, "Tomb Raider" was really an exception to the rule. Most of the time, if you make a big action film there has to be a big action guy in it. It's very European to trust a woman to play that kind of a role." [on 'Resident Evil']
- "I'm a dribbler." [really meaning dabbler, English is not her first language, after all]
- About Madonna: "Oh, my God! I used to ride my bicycle around for hours in the garage of our apartment building singing 'Material Girl.'" (In Style magazine, Sept/2006)"
- At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family."
- "Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label."
- "During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet."
- "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."
- "I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot."
- "I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist."
- "I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years."
- "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."
- "People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth."
- "Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker."
- "Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant."
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