Diane Kruger

“I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.”

“I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'”

“I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.”

“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 think commitment is very important, particularly for me.”

“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 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.”

“You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.”

“I only dance when I go out.”

“The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.”

“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.”

“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'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.”

“Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.”

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

“When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.”

“Above all, I dislike vulgarity.”

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

“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.”

“I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.”