Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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

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.

The truth has no temperature.

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

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

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.'

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

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

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

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

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

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

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

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.'

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

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.

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