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Cameron Diaz reveals why she quit acting

12:10, August 14

Speaking to Kevin Hart during an appearance on his talk show, Hart to Heart, this week, Cameron Diaz explained her decision to retire from acting came down to a realization that she was spending so much time and energy on acting, she was no longer managing her own life, Buzz Feed News.

The 48-year-old said she realized "when you do something at a really high level for a long period of time"—in her case, acting—it's difficult to focus on anything but that one thing.

"When you're the person who's sort of delivering on this one thing—you're the person on the screen, you're the person who's 'the talent'—everything around you—all parts of you that isn't that—has to be handed off to other people," Cameron explained.

She went on to say that while she

was acting, "every aspect" of her life, from her finances to her home, was managed by other people.

"Me as a human being—not me as Cameron Diaz, because Cameron Diaz is a machine—but for my personal, spiritual self, I was realizing that it's kind of like that one part of me that was functioning at a high level wasn't enough," she said.

She went on to say that, although she loves acting and "could go forever," it reached a point where she couldn't manage certain parts of her own life because "it was so big."

And, Cameron added, some of the people who were managing her life may not necessarily have had her best interests at heart—but she also didn't have time to figure that out.

"I really do think it's about the people you have in your life that can help you keep things moving," Cameron said. "And I had some amazing people, and I had some people who were not serving my best interests always."

"But you don't have time to figure those things out if you are just going, going, going, going with blinders on."

"I just really wanted to make my life manageable by me," Cameron said. "My routine in a day is literally what I can manage to do by myself. It's the best feeling. I feel whole."

Since quitting acting, Cameron reflected, she met her husband—Good Charlotte's Benji Madden—and they welcomed their daughter Raddix, who was born in December 2019.


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