Archie

I live the way I like. That’s the whole point, the whole harmony! The more balanced your world is, the more opportunities you’ll have.

Being a zamkadysh I claim: “There’s life beyond the Moscow Ring Road!”

I’m 100% Russian. I’d worked as a model for a long time, had worked in Milano and had been the face of Prada. But every time I had returned to Russia.

There’s snobbery and there’s cheap snobbery.

I’ve got about 10 000 friends on Odnoklassniki.Ru, and I can refuse to anyone. If you refuse, they’d say: “He puts on airs!”

You need to know not only how to speak, but also how to listen.

I’ve got a 1999 Jaguar Daimler Limited Edition with limousine windows.

The previous owner of this car was Boris Gromov, the governor of the Moscow Region.

It is much easier for me to discuss my problems with strangers.

I’ve got a Fashion TV gold medal, Summer Millionaire Fair 2009 “Oscar” and I rank among “The most sexual men of the planet 2008-2009”.

We, people of public profession, bear responsibility for our deeds and our behavior. For example, someone stole my car just before one of my first goings on the air, so I was very upset. So Yulechka, our audio operator, told me: “Remember this once and for all: the viewers never care whether you eat, crap or suffer… Get up and smile — this is your work”.

During my first casting on Muz-TV they told me: “Great! There’re no problems with the visuals, everything is cool! But you absolutely do not know how to speak”. So for a half a year I had been reading books aloud, taking acting and stage speech lessons.

Of course I had a star complex. I’m sure that everyone has to pass through it, especially if he’s a self-made man. For example, I served as a waiter once… But now I’m an ordinary man, just like the others, and I’m just doing my job.

Oscar Kuchera had brought me to my first casting six years ago. I had had terrible complexes then as I had graduated from school of economics, so all these sketches and stuff had seemed odd and weird to me. I had been working there without any salary for a half a year.

I have a huge dressing-room and a huge problem: nothing to put on and nowhere to put in.

I’m a child of asphalt, a man of a megapolis. I need elevators, I need telephone. But one day, when I’d grew tired of people, planes and cities, I had gone to a remote village on the Volga riverside and had been living there for almost a year, enjoying the beauties of nature. For the first time in my life I’d seen beaver lodges and spoors of wolves, wandering underneath my windows.

I love Nizhniy Novgorod. There’s a spit where two rivers meet. And in that very place there’s a marvelous restaurant. It has six dining rooms decorated in different styles. There you can just sit back and spend hours looking at the water, at the sunset and at the beautiful people around you.

It makes no odds how much you earn. The only important thing is your attitude to life. If you are open to people and to the world, everything is drawn towards you by itself. All thoughts are material.