Diane Kruger

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

“Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.”

“I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.”

“Life is more important than work.”

“But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.”

“I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.”

“I like to stay fit by being generally active.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.”

“It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.”

“I'm on time even when I try not to be.”

“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.”

“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 do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.”

“Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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