Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz has said she loves getting older as it allows her to get sexier and more confident.

The 37-year-old star, whose new movie The Box will soon be released, said that she doesn’t mind the fact she is approaching 40.

Asked if she is sad to be taking on more mature roles, she said to UK magazine Look: “No, I love getting older! I feel more self-possessed, which I think allows you to be more sexy, more confident.

“It’s also natural that as I get older I play mothers and wives and be part of different kinds of films. Women are obsessed with looking young, but what about the innocence of youth?

“The thing to envy in young people is not how they look but their innocence.”

Actress Cameron Diaz has stated she is proud of her long legs, slim frame and pretty face because she thinks self-deprecation is “unhealthy”.

The blonde beauty wants more people to appreciate themselves, no matter what other people say about them.

“I don’t think that self-deprecation is healthy for people,” she told Parade. “I think you should have a healthy relationship with yourself. We all have our up days and our down days.

“But I’m not going to walk through this world hating myself because somebody doesn’t like me or doesn’t think I’m pretty or that I should be ashamed that people think that I’m pretty. How am I going to live my life trying to figure out what everybody else feels about me? All I can do is know how I feel about myself.”

The 37-year-old actress hasn’t always been so self-confident. She admits she was unsure and nervous when she shot to fame in 1994 film The Mask, but claims her life has “transformed” since then.

“I’m in a completely different place in my life now and I’m very comfortable where I’m at,” she said. “I’m looking forward to the future. I’m looking forward to this afternoon and tomorrow and the next day and a month from now.”

Once again, thanks Sasha for the link to the following interview found on Parade.Com

Cameron Diaz, an admitted sci-fi geek, is co-starring in the supernatural thriller The Box. She and her hubby, played by X-Men’s James Marsden, can pocket a million dollars if they push the button on a mysterious box offered by a stranger. But there’s a terrible price — opening it will take the life of someone they don’t know.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf got Diaz to reveal her own personal dilemmas as well as why she’s not afraid to live life by her own rules.

It’s all about shopping.
“I love little boxes. I like accessories of any kind, but not like kitschy, not like trinket-y or tchotsky-ish. I love beautiful ones that are really elegant. I just go crazy over things like that. But I’m really trying hard not to buy stuff.”

So would she push the button?
“It’s not a decision that you take lightly, especially when you know the ugly consequences. I think we’ve all been in situations where we know what’s going to happen but hope desperately that it won’t. We just think, ‘I’ll take it back or I’ll say I was just kidding.’ We want to take the easy way out. We’re all offered little buttons to push every day of our lives. I think the bottom line is, ‘Nothing is for free.’”

She got that from her mother.
“I remember when I was a kid I got a box of Cheerios and I was like, ‘Mom, we got a free prize inside.’ And my mom said, ‘Sweetheart, that prize wasn’t free. We had to buy that box of cereal to get that prize. It may have come in that box, but you don’t get that without buying the box.’ And I kind of went, ‘Oh!’ I realized that goes across the board for anything. It’s like people want to be famous, but they don’t ask themselves what they want to be famous for. They just want to be famous. So people end up finding out that fame costs them something.”

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A mysterious man presents a couple with a box, telling them that if they push its button they will receive a large amount of cashbut someone in the world will die as a result. Such is the simple premise of the Richard Matheson short story “Button, Button,” which has been adapted by writer-director Richard Kelly into “The Box.” Opening Nov. 6, the film stars Frank Langella as the man and Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as the couple.

“It was always this kind of great blueprint for an act one of a film,” said Kelly of adapting the story, “and then it was like, ‘Where do we go after this has happened?’ I wanted to know what happens to that couple, and ultimately who is [the man] and who does he work for. . . . ?”

To expand the story, Kelly modeled the couple after his parents, setting the story in Virginia, where he grew up, in 1976, when his father was working at NASA, and even incorporating a medical accident his mother suffered.

“It’s one of those what-if scenarios like you hear at a dinner party — what would you do? To ground it in reality, it was like, let me go to the people I respect the most, my parents, and not make it the kind of couple who would just push the button carelessly. To think even the kindest, least violent people with great moral values might still push it, all of a sudden it made the story real.”

Kelly’s parents visited the set several times, allowing the actors some insights. “Obviously, it’s an interpretation, not a facsimile,” said Marsden of drawing from them. “But the more I could get into Richard’s head and see what he was seeing, the easier it was.”

When “The Box” shifts from its elegantly simple premise into a sprawling conspiracy of indeterminate origin before reaching a startling finale of emotional intimacy, Kelly finds a way to meld incongruous parts into a cohesive whole.

The film nevertheless paints itself into some outrageous corners, hinting at who may be behind the man’s mission. Diaz set off a brief skirmish of online discontent following her Comic-Con appearance when she perhaps revealed too much about who might be behind the box and its button. “The funny thing is,” she said, “I don’t think even Richard knows. And that’s OK. That’s humanity. There is no answer.”

Though he’d asked his parents about details of their lives, it wasn’t until a lunch with the actors that Kelly’s parents came to understand just how much of their lives were in the movie.

Richard’s mother, Ennis Kelly, started to choke up a little in a call from their Virginia home. “It just means so much to me and Richard’s dad.”

Richard Kelly is the man. Not just because he’ll be here all this week, posting as a guest editor for MTV Movies Blog. It helps, sure, but we’re talking about the guy who made “Donnie Darko” here. And “Southland Tales.” Isn’t that enough? Not for Kelly it isn’t. His latest brain-twisting tale, “The Box,” hits theaters on November 6. And he has a dynamite week of content planned for y’all, so sit back and enjoy!

I first met Cameron Diaz on the set of “Charlie’s Angels” in the spring of 2000. I was being escorted into Drew Barrymore’s trailer by her producing partner Nancy Juvonen – at the time, I was there to convince Drew to play the English teacher in my crazy little script called “Donnie Darko.”

Cut to October of 2001, at the premiere for “Donnie Darko” at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles – guess who showed up? Cameron Diaz.

I was shocked to see a huge star hanging out at the meager after party for a little independent film that had flopped at Sundance – there wasn’t even an open bar. But Cameron didn’t care, she was there to support the film and Drew . . . she stayed most of the night and even though we never spoke to one another (I was too shy to re-introduce myself) – her presence meant a lot to me.

Flash forward to the summer of 2005 – we are pulling an insane 18-hour day on the set of “Southland Tales” on the Santa Monica pier. Justin Timberlake was there and we were shooting what has become the most famous scene in the film – his big musical number with the dancing Marilyn Monroe nurses to the tune of The Killers song “All These Things That I’ve Done.”

Cameron arrived sometime just before midnight to visit Justin – and stayed until we finally wrapped at sunrise. She stuck it out with us, and seemed to really enjoy just hanging around on the set with all of the crew and watching the process unfold.Which brings us to “The Box” (opening November 6!). Getting to work with her on this felt like it was meant to be. The experience could not have been more perfect, and I feel blessed to be so fortunate to have an actress of her caliber in our film.

Cameron is very observant and thoughtful – she thinks long and hard before she makes any important decisions. It was clear that she knew exactly what she was doing every step of the way. She never once complained about a single thing during a long, emotional shoot in sub-arctic blizzard conditions.

I feel fortunate to have worked with both Cameron and Drew, who are consummate professionals — these are two of the most successful and well-adjusted women I know . . . incredibly supportive, kind and appreciative of everyone on the set and around them.I know I’m biased as the filmmaker behind the movie, but Cameron’s performance in “The Box” is extraordinary. I can’t wait for people to witness her transformation into Norma Lewis.

Cameron Diaz nearly missed her big break in ‘The Mask’ as she felt too bloated to wear a sexy dressThe 37-year-old actress said that she nearly didn’t audition for the part of Tina alongside Jim Carrey in the 1994 film because she had her period and didn’t feel confident enough to wear a sexy dress.

She said: “I woke up on the morning of my audition for the part of Tina and was on my period, feeling bloated and not particularly sexy and not wanting to put on some tight dress.

“So I went and read for the part of the reporter instead. That was all trousers and jacket.

‘The Box’ star Cameron now earns around $50million a film, but said she is lucky to have had a start at all.She said: “I was incredibly fortunate that they liked me and asked me to come back and read as Tina. If they hadn’t, who knows?

“I was unknown and they had plenty of actresses who they wanted for the part.”

Thanks to Sasha for the heads up, Cameron will be appearing on Late Night with Jimmy  Fallon onWednesday November 4th 2009 .Be sure to tune in if you can and come back to CameronFan.com for caps and cliips!

Despite boasting an impressive and versatile resume, the bubbly blonde is best known for her star turns in romantic comedies such as The Holiday, There’s Something About Mary and What Happens In Vegas. Her output this year has been of a decidedly darker tone, however.

In My Sister’s Keeper, she earned plaudits playing a protective and tormented mother prepared to do anything to save her cancer-stricken daughter.In The Box, which opens this month, she also plays a mother who succumbs to the temptations of a charming stranger to try to give her child a chance at a better life.

Diaz is already bracing for the questions about whether these roles have a deeper significance for her.”Those roles were chosen for the stories that were being told,” Diaz says over the phone from Boston, where she is shooting a movie with Tom Cruise.”They both happened to be mothers, which turned out to be more a coincidence than anything else.I just thought they were interesting characters and interesting stories.

“It’s the same thing as playing a pickpocket in Gangs Of New York _ I didn’t really have the urge to go out and pick people’s pockets.”In What Happens In Vegas, I go out, get drunk and marry a stranger. I didn’t have any urge to do that either. It’s just a story.”

Diaz concedes, however, that her film choices tend to reflect “the rhythm” of her life at the time she accepts them.
She thinks in terms of tone rather than genre, how much she’s likely to enjoy making the movie and what she’s likely to gain from it in terms of personal satisfaction.

“Sometimes through life you want to laugh and have a good time and not think about anything. At other times, you’re pondering something that goes a bit deeper,” she says.At 37, and boasting powerful box-office clout as one of the highest-paid actors in the world, Diaz is at a time in her career when she can just about do whatever she pleases.

Despite Hollywood having an appalling track record of quality roles for women over 40, Diaz doesn’t feel like the clock is ticking in any way.Fifteen years after successfully making the transition from modelling to acting in The Mask, she still has no grand plan for career longevity, choosing to embrace each opportunity as it presents itself.

“I’m not 40 yet, and I don’t know what I’m going to want,” Diaz says.”I’m certainly not sitting here worrying. I’m just making the most of the life I’m living, as I’ve done all along.”At the very first press junket I did for The Mask, they asked me, `Where do you want to be in 10 years?’ and I just said, `happy’.

“I can give that same answer now. It’s more than 10 years later, and I’m still happy making movies.”And as long as I’m happy making movies, I’ll keep making movies.”If I’m not, then I’ll do something else that makes me happy.”

Making choices is central to Diaz’s role in The Box, a sci-fi thriller based on a 1970 short story (later made into a Twilight Zone episode) that has been adapted and directed by Donnie Darko writer/director Richard Kelly.Diaz says she was attracted to the movie’s idea that everybody is connected and all our actions have repercussions, for better or worse.

“There are six billion of us in the world, but we all affect one another’s day-to-day life with the choices we make,” she says.”All you can do is the best you can and try to make the most aware and conscious decisions that you can.”The ever-versatile Diaz is shifting gears again for her next project.

Apart from shooting the action-comedy film Wichita with friend and Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise, she’s also finishing The Green Hornet, comedian Seth Rogen’s foray into the superhero genre.”That was a lot of fun,” Diaz says of working on The Green Hornet.”I loved working with Michel Gondry, and I loved working with Seth Rogen.”They’re awesome, fantastic people, and I can’t wait to get back and have more fun with them.”