CAMERON Diaz has learned to love herself.

The Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle star says she refuses to go through life hating herself because other people don’t like her.

“I don’t think that self-deprecation is healthy for people,” she says. “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.”

Diaz, 37, recently insisted she’s happy to her love life out of the spotlight — because she doesn’t want details of who she’s romancing splashed across blogs, magazines and TV shows.

“Love lives of the famous are distractions from people’s own love lives,” she said. “There are some celebrities who like to sell their own experiences, who are just out front with it. And that’s something that people can buy. And there are other people who have their moments stolen from them by the media and by the paparazzi.

“Then millions of readers and TV viewers occupy their time with those stolen moments. If I’m missing from the pages and the blogs and the shows, I don’t think that’s such a devastation.”

“I don’t have to prove anything to anybody,” she adds. “I know who I am. I have my own sense of myself. And the things that I do, I do for myself and to challenge myself and to have my own experience.

“I’m in a completely different place in my life now and I’m very comfortable where I’m at. 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.”

CAMERON Diaz likes to keep her love life out of the spotlight.

The actress — who has previously dated singer Justin Timberlake — says she doesn’t want details of who she’s romancing splashed across blogs, magazines and TV shows.

“Love lives of the famous are distractions from people’s own love lives,” Diaz, 37, told Parade magazine. “There are some celebrities who like to sell their own experiences, who are just out front with it. And that’s something that people can buy. And there are other people who have their moments stolen from them by the media and by the paparazzi.

“Then millions of readers and TV viewers occupy their time with those stolen moments. If I’m missing from the pages and the blogs and the shows, I don’t think that’s such a devastation.”

“I don’t have to prove anything to anybody,” she adds. “I know who I am. I have my own sense of myself. And the things that I do, I do for myself and to challenge myself and to have my own experience.

“I’m in a completely different place in my life now and I’m very comfortable where I’m at. 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.”

Diaz also revealed her tips for dealing with heartbreak.

“Oftentimes, the way that we learn is to have our heart broken,” she said. “As many times as we fall in love, our heart gets broken. But heartbreak is always a part of life, from not making a team in your favorite sport to your parents having a fight.

“Life is full of ups and downs. You can’t know happiness without sadness and vice versa. The great thing about getting older is you become wiser and you gain knowledge and you grow. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s a wonderful thing.”

Diaz recently revealed that she’ll quit Hollywood when it makes her unhappy.

HOLLYWOOD beauty Cameron Diaz says she’ll quit making movies when being an actress no longer makes her happy.

The My Sister’s Keeper star says she’s currently content with her life — but admits it could soon change and when it does, she’ll take a different path.

“I’m not 40 yet and I don’t know what I am going to want,” said the 37-year-old. “I’m certainly not sitting here worrying about where I am going to be at, I am just making the most out of the life I am living as I have been doing all along.

“As long as I am happy making movies, I will keep making movies. If I’m not, then I will do something else.”

Diaz also revealed why she chose to star in new movie The Box — which tells the story of a couple who are given a box by a stranger and told they will be given $1 million if they push a button on the box – but someone they don’t know will die.

“There are so many chances in the world, but everything is connected,” she said. T”here is nothing in existence that doesn’t connect us to any experience and any person at any given time anywhere in the world.

“All you can do is the best you can and try to make the most aware and conscious decisions you can.”

Cameron Diaz is reuniting with her Vanilla Sky costar Tom Cruise for a new Hollywood blockbuster, according to reports.

The pair — who first shared the screen in the 2001 film — have teamed up again in a new untitled movie project with Walk The Line director James Mangold.

“Cameron plays a woman on a blind date who ends up being embroiled in a dramatic adventure with Cruise, who portrays a top US spy,” a source told Britain’s Daily Express newspaper.

“With such an A-list duo involved, it’s hoped this is going to be a big hit.”

Filming reportedly begins next month (October 2009).

Cameron Diaz has a new man in her life — she’s reportedly dating Sex and the City actor Jason Lewis.

The pair sparked rumors of a romance after they were seen getting cozy during a recent meal together at a sushi restaurant in Venice Beach.

“Cameron and Justin were sitting in the corner of Shima totally wrapped up in one another,” a source revealed.

“They couldn’t stop touching each other. And we couldn’t stop looking.”

Cameron — who split from British model Paul Sculfor in May this year — has reportedly been friends with Jason for several years, but they’ve only just decided to embark on a relationship.

“They’ve always got along, but now realize just how much they have in common,” the source told Britain’s Grazia magazine. “Jason is exactly Cameron’s type. She’s attracted to athletic types and they’re both passionate about the environment.”

Like Sculfor, Lewis has previously dated Jennifer Aniston.

Cameron Diaz has a guilty secret — she often steals items from movie sets and uses them to create her own disguises.

The Charlie’s Angels beauty admits she has collected a number of items of wardrobe from her movies, which she uses to disguise herself while out in public.

“I’ve enjoyed taking home some of the costumes from movie sets, in particular when I played Lotte in Being John Malkovich,” she said. “That was really fun because I had these brown contact lenses and this crazy wig and I would go shopping as Lotte.

“People didn’t even want to help me.”

Diaz, 36, recently revealed she’s keen to make a third Charlie’s Angels film.

“People ask me about it all the time,” she said. “I would love to do it. It’s just a matter of us getting off our butts and doing it. Totally lazy! Our work ethic sucks, all of us.”

Asked if she thinks her co-stars in the film — Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore — would return for another movie, Diaz said, “I would love to do, but I have no idea. It’s not anything real. There’s no tangible evidence in my life.”

Cameron Diaz has a huge crush on Leonardo DiCaprio.

The actress — who earlier this year split from her British boyfriend Paul Sculfor — has enjoyed several dates in London with the Titanic star and she’s apparently keen to convince him that he’s “the one”.

“Cameron has always held a torch for Leo, and I think he feels the same way about her,” a source told American tabloid the National Enquirer.

The pair reportedly enjoyed a brief romance while filming the 2002 drama Gangs of New York.

“Cameron and Leo had a fling about six years ago,” the source added. “But neither was too serious at the time and eventually moved on to other people.”

The source adds that Cameron and Leo “have known each other since they were kids and are actually quite a good match.

“Both are laid back, family-orientated and prefer to avoid the limelight. I could totally see them settling down together and I think Cameron feels the same way.”

However, Diaz faces some stiff competition — DiCaprio was recently spotted enjoying the company of stunning pin-up Anne Vyalitsyna in Ibiza, Spain.

A third Charlie’s Angels film could soon be bursting its way into movie theaters — that’s if Cameron Diaz gets her way!

The actress — who payed the role of tough-girl Natalie Cook in the 2000 film Charlie’s Angels and again three years later in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle — says she’d “love” to reprise her role.

“People ask me about it all the time,” she said. “I would love to do it. It’s just a matter of us getting off our butts and doing it. Totally lazy! Our work ethic sucks, all of us.”

Asked if she thinks her co-stars in the film — Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore — would return for another movie, Diaz said, “I would love to do, but I have no idea. It’s not anything real. There’s no tangible evidence in my life.”

Cameron Diaz doesn’t like scary movies — even though she stars in one!

The actress appears opposite Hollywood hunk James Marsden in psychological thriller The Box,  which is scheduled to be released October 30, 2009.

But Diaz admits when it comes to horror flicks, she’s not a fan.

“You know what terrifies me? Trailers to horror movies!” Cameron, 36, told People magazine.

“I just can’t watch them. I hate horror movies. I’m always afraid.

“I kind of want to look, but I’m always afraid that I’m going to look too long and see the one image that I’m not going to be able to get out of my head for at least a week every night before I’m going to bed.”

Diaz — who plays the parent of a cancer victim in new movie My Sister’s Keeper — recently insisted that she’s in no rush to start a family.

“Making a movie about being a mother doesn’t make me want to rush out, get drunk, get married in Vegas and have babies,” she said. “I don’t really relate it back in that way. I’m just living life. I’m very fortunate to do what I do and I’ve just been indulging in that.

“It’s a blessing. I feel like I have an extraordinary life and I just want to carry on that path.”

Cameron Diaz has been tipped for on Oscar for her role as the mother of a cancer victim in My Sister’s Keeper — but the actress is already playing down her chances.

Diaz, 36, says she doesn’t want to jinx her chances by singing her own praises.

“I feel the biggest that that shines is not me but the film itself,” says Cameron. “An actor can give a great performance but the construction of a film is so much harder. If anyone should get an Oscar it should be our director.”

The What Happens in Vegas star recently insisted she’s in no rush to start a family.

“Making a movie about being a mother doesn’t make me want to rush out, get drunk, get married in Vegas and have babies,” she said. “I don’t really relate it back in that way. I’m just living life. I’m very fortunate to do what I do and I’ve just been indulging in that.

“It’s a blessing. I feel like I have an extraordinary life and I just want to carry on that path.”