Top 60 Diane Kruger Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There’s no paper that will make you stay.”

— Diane Kruger

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

— Diane Kruger

3. “It’s fun being one of the boys. It’s fun to have a character that’s rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.”

— Diane Kruger

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4. “What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That’s like someone picking out who I’m going to date!”

— Diane Kruger

5. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

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

— Diane Kruger

7. “I don’t know about style. I know about my personal style.”

— Diane Kruger

8. “I’m European, small, dainty – but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.”

— Diane Kruger

9. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

10. “People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.”

— Diane Kruger

11. “Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.”

— Diane Kruger

12. “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

13. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

14. “The only song I can sing is Lady in Red so that must tell you how great it must have been.”

— Diane Kruger

15. “With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you’re going to be.”

— Diane Kruger

16. “I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.”

— Diane Kruger

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17. “People should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning.”

— Diane Kruger

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

— Diane Kruger

19. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

20. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

21. “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

22. “I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.”

— Diane Kruger

23. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

24. “I made a French film called ‘Merry Christmas’ which is a very European film. It’s a World War I piece.”

— Diane Kruger

25. “I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.”

— Diane Kruger

26. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

27. “Family is becoming more and more important to me.”

— Diane Kruger

28. “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

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

— Diane Kruger

30. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

31. “You can learn any accent you want. It’s a fascinating thing.”

— Diane Kruger

32. “Above all, I dislike vulgarity.”

— Diane Kruger

33. “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.”

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

— Diane Kruger

35. “I have three goddaughters – I’m not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children – but I try.”

— Diane Kruger

36. “I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It’s just beautiful to me.”

— Diane Kruger

37. “I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.”

— Diane Kruger

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38. “I’m not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.”

— Diane Kruger

39. “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

40. “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

41. “I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn’t.”

— Diane Kruger

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

— Diane Kruger

43. “I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That’s where it first started.”

— Diane Kruger

44. “I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn’t grasp what they’re really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.”

— Diane Kruger

45. “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.”

— Diane Kruger

46. “When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it’s nice.”

— Diane Kruger

47. “A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.”

— Diane Kruger

48. “My sport is biking. I’m not much of a gym person, but I like being outside – hiking, canoeing, camping.”

— Diane Kruger

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

— Diane Kruger

50. “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