Diane Kruger Quotes

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness