Cameron Diaz Quotes

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 sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.

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

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

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

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 don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

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.

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.

I have always had the same New Year resolutions: To stop smoking, to start wearing a bra, and to stop shopping.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

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.

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

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

Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.

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

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

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.

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

I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

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.

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 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.

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.

The truth has no temperature.

I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

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.

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

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

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.

I know that in my life my girlfriends are one of the most important relationships I have going through the good times and the bad times.

I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry.

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.

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

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

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...'

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.

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.

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

Friendships I think can also be soul mates.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

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.

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.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.