Quotes from Diane Kruger

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

I only dance when I go out.

I think commitment is very important, particularly for me.

Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight.

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.