Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American entrepreneur, producer, author, and retired actress and model. The recipient of several accolades, including nominations for four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she was named the highest-paid Hollywood actress over 40 in 2013. As of 2018, the U.S. domestic box office grosses of Diaz’s films total over US$3 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing US$7 billion, making her the fifth highest-grossing U.S. domestic box office actress.
Born in San Diego, California, Diaz was raised in Long Beach. While still in high school, she signed a modeling contract with Elite Model Management. She made her film debut at age 21 opposite Jim Carrey in the comedy The Mask (1994). She was subsequently cast in a supporting role in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) before appearing as the titular Mary in the Farrelly brothers’ hit comedy There’s Something About Mary (1998), which brought her increased fame and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Her following two projects—the sports drama Any Given Sunday and Spike Jonze’s surrealist fantasy Being John Malkovich (both 1999)—lent Diaz a reputation as a dramatic actress, the latter earning her a second Golden Globe nomination.
Diaz earned a third Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role in Vanilla Sky (2001) and appeared in numerous high-profile films in the early 2000s, including Charlie’s Angels (2000) and its sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), as well as voicing the character of Princess Fiona in the Shrek series (2001–2010). In 2002, she was cast in Martin Scorsese’s period epic Gangs of New York, for which she earned her fourth Golden Globe nomination. Her subsequent films included the dramatic comedies In Her Shoes (2005) and The Holiday (2006) and the psychological thriller The Box (2009). Diaz appeared in a supporting role in The Green Hornet in 2011, followed by starring roles in the comedies Bad Teacher (2011) and The Other Woman (2014). Her final performance before retiring from acting was Will Gluck’s 2014 film adaptation of Annie.
Diaz has also written two health books: The Body Book (2013), a New York Times bestseller, and The Longevity Book (2016).
“I’m living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.”—Cameron Diaz
“Find the beauty in yourself.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.”—Cameron Diaz
“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.”—Cameron Diaz
“For me, gratitude is the only attitude.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m totally comfortable with my body.”—Cameron Diaz
“I don’t believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.”—Cameron Diaz
“When things are meant to come together, they come together.”—Cameron Diaz
“Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.”—Cameron Diaz
“I think humor is the best gift, and if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?”—Cameron Diaz
“Take care of your body and it will get better!”—Cameron Diaz
“You screw me, I screw you back. I’m a lady like that.”—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.”—Cameron Diaz
“For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.”—Cameron Diaz
“I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for.”—Cameron Diaz
“Comparison is a brutal assault upon one’s self.”—Cameron Diaz
“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
“I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.”—Cameron Diaz
“The best time of day for sex is anytime because it’s sex.”—Cameron Diaz
“I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people all my own age.”—Cameron Diaz
“Sometimes I work better under pressure.”—Cameron Diaz
“You shouldn’t hate another women because she is beautiful and you shouldn’t hate yourself because another women is beautiful.”—Cameron Diaz
“I celebrate everyone’s beauty.”—Cameron Diaz
“Celebrate their beauty and celebrate your own.”—Cameron Diaz
“You haven’t partied until you’ve partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.”—Cameron Diaz
“I can get things done if I need to.”—Cameron Diaz
“Sexuality and love can be different things.”—Cameron Diaz
“We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it’s hard to define.”—Cameron Diaz
“I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m not really in any competition with anyone, I’m not in any race.”—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 want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves.”—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
“There’s a little part of you at all times that hopes to be somewhat objectified, and I think it’s healthy.”—Cameron Diaz
“I hate committing myself to anything.”—Cameron Diaz
“I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.”—Cameron Diaz
“Whatever success people have in a field, it’s a result of hard work.”—Cameron Diaz
“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 will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing.”—Cameron Diaz
“The truth has no temperature.”—Cameron Diaz
“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
“Whenever I don’t’ have to wear makeup, it’s a good day.”—Cameron Diaz
“When I go out, I love steak and caviar.”—Cameron Diaz
“The fountain of youth for me is exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex — yes, sex, we need that as human beings.”—Cameron Diaz
“Sex is my favorite sport. I’m always in the mood.”—Cameron Diaz
“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.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m living, not thinking what I should or shouldn’t be doing with my life.”—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
“Hollywood is a funny place. It offers so much, but it can also take a lot away from you.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m a pretty girl who’s a model who doesn’t suck as an actress.”—Cameron Diaz
“If you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that’s them just understanding themselves better and better.”—Cameron Diaz
“You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.”—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
“We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.”—Cameron Diaz
“I should probably pay more attention to the character that I’m going to play and what they do.”—Cameron Diaz
“I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.”—Cameron Diaz
“There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.”—Cameron Diaz
“Personally, I don’t like watching violence. I’d much rather see more skin.”—Cameron Diaz
“I learn a lot of things- that’s my job! It’s so simple to learn, so simple to practice.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships.”—Cameron Diaz
“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.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.”—Cameron Diaz
“I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner.”—Cameron Diaz
“Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories.”—Cameron Diaz
“Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.”—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 know that in my life my girlfriends are one of the most important relationships I have.”—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 have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever.”—Cameron Diaz
“Everything’s a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There’s no guarantee.”—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 think I’ve become more comfortable about being a human being.”—Cameron Diaz
“I would love a family.”—Cameron Diaz
“I am in love with life. I think it’s pretty awesome when you are engaged in it.”—Cameron Diaz
“I’ve pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.”—Cameron Diaz
“Picking projects, it’s always director first and then script.”—Cameron Diaz
“The grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else’s shoes.”—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.”—Cameron Diaz
“I believe in fate and what’s meant to be mine will be mine.”—Cameron Diaz
“I write constantly, but only in my journals.”—Cameron Diaz
“Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.”—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
“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
“One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else’s life.”—Cameron Diaz
“I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.”—Cameron Diaz
“I think that women are afraid to say they don’t want children because they’re going to get shunned.”—Cameron Diaz
“I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts.”—Cameron Diaz
“Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it’s all about the filmmaker.”—Cameron Diaz
