Cameron Diaz Quotes & Sayings

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world. — Cameron Diaz

As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need to do is focus on our own strengths, our own capabilities, our own beauty. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It's a disease. — Cameron Diaz

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

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman. — Cameron Diaz

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

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

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. — 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 not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race. — 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 did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen. — Cameron Diaz

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

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

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

You live in a world where you can drive through the drive-thru, flop down in a chair to work all day, and spend your evening on the couch, in front of the TV, before you crawl off to your cozy bed. Even if you work hard all day, your day-to-day living can make your body soft. And that softness is a modern-day killer, the equivalent of the savanna-dweller's lion (actually, the lion was better, since it kept people moving). — Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together. — Cameron Diaz

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

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

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

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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! — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that. — Cameron Diaz

If you are not in the habit of being active, you are at risk for a number of ailments that would probably not be an issue if you just moved. Moving your body on a daily basis, continually throughout the day, is your body's instinct because it is essential to its well-being. — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

The mystique and the romance of a big wedding are lost on me. I don't think that I could ever do something that extravagant. I am not much of a planner. I would probably make the phone call 20 minutes before the bus leaves for the chapel and ask if anyone is available to come. That's probably how my wedding is going to end up. — 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

We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have. — Cameron Diaz

I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person, but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for 5 years and another person for another 5 years. — 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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

Every casting director I've met is a woman. — Cameron Diaz

I don't understand people who have sex with their dog in the room. — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

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 ... ' — Cameron Diaz

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!" — Cameron Diaz

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time. — Cameron Diaz

Grease is the only cure for a hangover. — 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'm always jumping on a plane somewhere. With my lifestyle, I'm all over the place. — 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 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. — Cameron Diaz

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

I was like, "Excuse me, guys. My ass is going to be facing this way. Do you mind maybe just standing over there during this take because something is going to happen." — 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

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

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

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with 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 never been a fluffy sort of woman ... — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

Just because you can put something in your mouth, chew it, swallow it, and then poop it out doesn't mean it's food. It just means you can chew it, swallow it, and poop it out. — Cameron Diaz

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

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

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

I never felt I had to prove myself with anything. — Cameron Diaz

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. — Cameron Diaz

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 ... — Cameron Diaz

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

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche. — Cameron Diaz