Quotes from Cameron Diaz


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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.


You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!


I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.


Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.


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 mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.


I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.


I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.


I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.


Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.


I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.


Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.


Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.


Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.


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.


It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.


I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.


I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.


I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.


I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.