(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Cameron Diaz claims she has an inbuilt "timer" which means she can't stay in one place for longer than two weeks.
The 38-year-old actress is renowned for her bubbly personality and fun-loving attitude. Cameron says her personality is perfectly suited to the movie industry because she is constantly exploring new places and doesn't have time to get bored. The energetic beauty admits she doesn't like to get settled in one place, revealing that counselling has helped her deal with her character traits.
"I'm expecting to pack my bags at the end of two weeks because I'm supposed to be some place else. There's a timer in me," she explained during an interview with British newspaper The Independent. "I've been doing it [therapy] for 15 years and I thank God. My life would not be half as fulfilled as it is without therapy.
"I think that you get back what you put out, and I want to have a good time. The most important thing is that I'm living. And I think that's just sort of my programme: work really hard and then play really hard."
Cameron's latest big screen outing sees her playing a wild middle-school teacher. In the movie Bad Teacher, Cameron's character Elizabeth Halsey sleeps at her desk, plays movies for her kids instead of teaching them and abuses drugs and alcohol. The star loved playing the morally reprehensible educator, insisting she found it easy to relate to her.
"I think that we all have a little Elizabeth in us. She walks on the dark side a little bit and I think that in life, being human is all about light and dark. They sit very close to each other. If you're lucky you can kind of straddle it and I think I kind of tend to stay more on the light side. I'm a cheerleader for life. I love it, I appreciate it," she explained. "We all have to follow certain societal standards, and I was able to let that go for a couple of months, leave behind all my moral qualms, then step back out of that at the end of the day and go back to being part of society. I had to play her, I just knew I had to. There was no choice for me." (C) Cover Media