106 Quotes by Cameron Diaz

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

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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.

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.

The best time of day for sex is anytime because it's sex.

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

I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

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 believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

There's a little part of you at all times that hopes to be somewhat objectified, and I think it's healthy.

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Sexuality and love can be different things. I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman. If I'm going to be with a woman sexually, it doesn't mean I'm a lesbian. We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it's hard to define.

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I've never been a fluffy sort of woman.

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

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

You shouldn't hate another women because she is beautiful and you shouldn't hate yourself because another women is beautiful. Like, that's the trap that women fall into so much and they are like ”She is so beautiful I hate her”. I could never say something like that about another women. I celebrate everyone's beauty. Celebrate their beauty and celebrate your own, find the beauty in yourself.

I'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place.

You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead.

I believe there are many soul mates, because my soul has a lot of different facets and it needs a lot of different.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

I think women are afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned. But I think that's changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don't have kids than those that do. And honestly? We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.

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.

For me, gratitude is the only attitude.

Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.

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

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

I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman.

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

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.

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

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

The foundation of youth for me...lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex.

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

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

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.

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

think people get scared that they’re not going to be able to do it perfectly - they’re going to be criticized - they’re going to be like, “Well, I’m not totally green.” Well, you know what? At this point we don’t care... Just a shade of green is enough right now. Move a little bit closer towards this. Because the more people start moving closer and closer to it, that’s something that collectively makes a difference.

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'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply.

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

My ass is definitely higher than it was when I was 20. This is the thing that people don't understand - take care of your body [and it will] get better! It gets better as I get older.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

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've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

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

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

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

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Sex is my favorite sport. I'm always in the mood.

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

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

I think humor is the best gift, and if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.

Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.

I believe in fate and what's meant to be mine will be mine, and if it's not in my lap, then it's not mine.

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

The truth has no temperature.

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't.

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one.

I learned and it was exactly what I needed [Transcendental Meditation]. The thing that blew me away was that it was the easiest thing I've ever done- not the easiest meditation, but the easiest thing I've ever learned. I learn a lot of things- that's my job! It's so simple to learn, so simple to practice. And the restoration that comes to you, the benefit across your life; it's changed everything.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

I think a lot of people are married to people that they're not romantic with anymore. I just didn't ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on.

I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

The fountain of youth for me, let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex — yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!

The last couple of years were hell. Like, I can't even tell you, it was so hard. I didn't know how to handle it. But I think I'm in a much better place now, because I stepped away for a second and took a breath. Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.

There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.

We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.

The first country that I went to outside of America was Japan and I was completely shocked - especially since I was 16 and over there by myself. I was like: "I don't get it; there's nothing in English!"

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

The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there...'

TM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence.

It's not talked about, but you know how girls, as you get older, your boobs sag? Well, as men get older, their balls hang lower. It's called SBH: Senior Ball Hang. I think that's God's way of making sure guys get to feel insecure too.

It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

Friendships I think can also be soul mates.

[The Other Woman]s not only a story about friendship and women and how we support one another and how we're there for one another, but it also shows how different these women are. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and those strengths and weaknesses help each one of them in their own way.

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.