Diane Kruger: 'I'm Not Cultured Enough'

Diane Kruger: 'I'm Not Cultured Enough'

Actress Diane Kruger attends the 'Unknown' (Unknown Identity) Photocall during day nine of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival at the Grand Hyatt on February 18, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty Images)

Diane Kruger has made it big in her modeling and acting career, but the 34-year-old doesn't feel like she's really learned anything about the world so far in her life. She doesn't think she's "cultured enough" and is now determined to travel and explore more in the next phase of her life.

She said: “Getting older, I realized I didn't know anything. I felt incredibly stupid. I've always been very self-righteous. I've always been like, 'I speak three different languages, I'm so accomplished.' And everyone tells me, 'You're so pretty', and then it was a big realization that I don't understand anything, that I feel like I'm not cultured enough, that I'm stupid sometimes. That's my thing in my thirties. I want to work on 'me' much more."

Diane said it was her desire to explore more of the world which prompted her to take roles such as in Special Forces, which gave her the opportunity to interview female kidnap victims in Gaza and Afghanistan to research her role as a journalist taken by the Taliban. The film was then shot in remote parts of Africa and the Himalayas.

Diane admits she was “horrible to everybody” during making the movie, but said the experience “really changed” her. She added to The Independent newspaper: "I just thought it was fascinating on a personal level. How many times have I been at home, cooking dinner and the TV news is on, and you're like, 'Ugh! Turn this off!' You take for granted that you have access to information.”

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Diane Kruger Credits Joshua Jackson For Making Her Wiser

Diane Kruger Credits Joshua Jackson For Making Her Wiser

“Unknown” actress Diane Kruger, who recently shared how she lives her life in anonymity, says that her boyfriend of 5 years, Joshua Jackson, has really helped her to expand her thinking when it comes to reading and learning about the world.

“Josh is someone who is very grounded. It’s pure, there’s no bulls**t. He is very curious and is someone who always reads and is very politically engaged. He awakened the urge to ask more questions. You can take so many things for granted, because you read them and think it must be true, and he’s not like that.”

That’s my thing in my thirties. I want to work on ‘me’ much more… Getting older, I realised I didn’t know anything. I felt incredibly stupid.

“I’ve always been very self-righteous. I’ve always been like, ‘I speak three different languages, I’m so accomplished.’ And everyone tells me, ‘You’re so pretty’, and then it was a big realisation that I don’t understand anything, that I feel like I’m not cultured enough, that I’m stupid sometimes.”

I think we can all relate to that. You think you’re very worldly until someone or something pushes your thinking in a new way and helps you to see things differently. I think we’re all continuously growing and learning about the world around us.

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Diane Kruger – 1 Girl, 2 Dresses

Diane Kruger – 1 Girl, 2 Dresses

Diane Kruger stepped on the red carpet at two different events during the 61st International Berlinale film festival in Berlin – here she is in a purple number and a long white gown, looking thin and elegant.

Diane Kruger – 1 girl, 2 dresses… how do you like these looks on Diane?

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Liam Neeson: It's Easy to Wake Up When Your Co-Stars Are This Lovely

Liam Neeson: It's Easy to Wake Up When Your Co-Stars Are This Lovely

(L-R) Actors January Jones, Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger arrive at Warner Bros. Los Angeles Premiere of "Unknown" held at Regency Village Theatre on February 16, 2011 in Westwood, California. (Getty Images)

Early mornings weren't a problem for Liam Neeson on the set of his latest movie Unknown. Why? His co-stars were so easy on the eyes.

The 58-year-old actor -- whose wife Natasha Richardson died in a skiing accident in Canada in March 2009 -- revealed starring with Diane Kruger, 34, and January Jones, 33, made the tough filming conditions a little easier to bear.

When asked how he found working with the pair, Liam told British website AskMen: “It’s very easy on the eyes to see them first thing when you get to the set at 6 am, if I may say so.”

Liam recently revealed his grief at the death of Natasha -- with whom he has two sons Michael and Daniel -- affects him most in "the middle of the night."

He said: "It's easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of works. That's effective. But that's the weird thing about grief. You can't prepare for it. You think you're gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.

"It hits you in the middle of the night -- well, it hits me in the middle of the night. I'm out walking. I'm feeling quite content, and it's like suddenly, boom. It's like you've just done that in your chest."

 

 

 

 

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