Diane Kruger Quotes

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

I don't like talking about my relationships.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

I reveal too much of myself.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.