For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active. – Diane Kruger
It’s maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill – he was an alcoholic – so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn’t know how to get it out. – Diane Kruger
I have three goddaughters – I’m not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children – but I try. – Diane Kruger
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington. – Diane Kruger
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear. – Diane Kruger
I’m very independent. I’m not sure how I’d deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7. – Diane Kruger
What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can’t leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. – Diane Kruger
I don’t have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, ‘I don’t want to make that.’ – Diane Kruger
I don’t obsess about my weight. I just know I’ve got to watch it when my pants feel tight. – Diane Kruger
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. – Diane Kruger
I feel as if sometimes women can’t deal with what’s going on and they have no one around who actually understands. – Diane Kruger
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That’s been the focus while I’m in my thirties – to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress. – Diane Kruger
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. – Diane Kruger
I don’t have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress… ? No. It’s not something for me. – Diane Kruger
It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don’t think the movie would work otherwise. – Diane Kruger
You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say ‘for the rest of my life.’ – Diane Kruger
I don’t want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There’s a time to work, there’s a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I’m actually looking forward to that. – Diane Kruger