Cameron Diaz Quotes

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Cameron Diaz Quotes

I was the tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket, the feathered hair. It was frightening.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

Most men are the same. They're only interested in [eloping] and they don't care whether you're happy or sad. They just want to get on with their business in and out of bed, and they make you feel that you don't count except as their sex toy.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

I don't say that I won't do nudity for other people's benefit. It has nothing to do with other people's, it's just what I'm comfortable with.

I'll stop smoking, I'll stop shopping and I'll wear a bra. People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

After a hard days work, it's nice to go back to the trailer and see him [her cat] sitting there waiting for me.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

A perfect evening? Being around people who make me laugh, eating good food and I guess that's pretty much it. Or doing something I've never done before. If someone's around me who can suggest something I've never done before, then let's do it. Pretty boring, huh?

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't. If we are just sitting having a conversation, being real human beings with one another it is just fantastic. I try to keep my life out of it, not giving it away. I don't volunteer a lot of information.

There are scripts I've read where I really like the character but there might be some content that I'm uneasy with. You have to make the decision whether you want to put that out there.

It's very easy once you play a sex symbol to go along and play every role that way. But I decided if I was going to be in this for the long haul and really get something out of acting, what I wanted out of it, I was going to have to make the decision of waiting to get a part that could show people I can do other things, see me in a different light. It was a definite conscious decision.

I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it..... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later, or even a month, and realizing how much you've changed. You're looking at something you said, something you really meant at the time, and you're like, 'I can't believe I ever really believed that! I am such an asshole!' I think that's the greatest thing about growing up...

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I didn't realize it [The Mask] was a fairly large film that I was a part of. Halfway through I was going, 'Is there any place that my mom and dad can see this film?' and they're going, 'Cameron, at the theatres.' I had no idea. Durrrrrrr. I'm blonde. I'm allowed.

One thing I realized from Julia [Roberts, "My Best Friend's Wedding" co-star] - which I knew before, but was made very clear - is that when you're the star of the film, the crew looks to you to set the tone of everyday work. So when you come into work, whatever it is that you're giving off, that is what the tone is going to be for the working conditions.

On "Being John Malkovich": "it's been said that in Hollywood there are only 14 different scripts. Well, this is number 15.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.