Cameron Diaz: ‘Heartbreak is Always a Part of Life’

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.”

You can read the entire article at Parade.Com!