Cameron Diaz quotes

“I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.”

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

“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.'”

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

“When I go out, I love steak and caviar.”

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

“Every casting director I've met is a woman.”

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

“Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.”

— Cameron Diaz

“I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.”

— Cameron Diaz

“I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.”

— Cameron Diaz

“I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being. Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.”

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz

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

— Cameron Diaz

“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.”

— Cameron Diaz