Cameron on aging naturally: “Yeah, well, hey, I’m not doing anything right now. But we’ll see. So far, so good. But I’ll never say never to anything.”
On her role in ‘Bad Teacher’: “The women I play, I usually like to take care of them… make sure they are moral people, even if they’re not doing their best. But this one? I don’t feel any responsibility for her. She doesn’t give a sh-t about anyone by herself. I’m sure we’ll offend everyone with it, which is great - because if you offend everyone, you don’t have to apologize to anyone, right?”
On working with Justin Timberlake on ‘Bad Teacher’: “He plays the substitute teacher I, er, set my sights on.”
Is she in love right now? “Oh, y’know… these are questions I can either play yes or no, and you know what? Yes, I am, I’m in love with life.”
On her father’s death in 2008: “There was this period of terrible numbness, and it’s impossible for anyone to know what it’s like until it happens to you… No one can ever underestimate how devastating it is. But at the same time, what I’ve learnt about losing someone so close is that my life is full of his presence. I‘m not kidding, I really am in love with life at the moment.”
On being child-free: “Look, here’s what it is. You know how you have those moments of feeling dissatisfied and you think, ‘What would make my life better?’ Well, I’ve yet to go, ‘Aha, that’s it: a child!’ I’m not saying I don’t want them, but right now I see how torn up parents get when they’re away from their kids, how guilty they feel, and I don’t want that! I don’t want to feel like I ought to be missing someone, I don’t want to not do a film at a moment’s notice…But don’t get me wrong, I’m 100 percent committed when I commit to somebody or something. I’m a full-on nurturer - that’s all I do.”
On aging: “You’ve got to be realistic. I mean, I don’t want to look 25 again. I might as well enjoy it while I’ve still got something.”
On how she stays in shape: “No… fountain of youth… I guess it’s just exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex - yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do! I’m 37, I don’t need to go out and party anymore. Those years are over for me. There are nights, sure, when you order more bottles of wine than you realize and then the bill comes and you go whoa! But I don’t like waking up feeling gross. I don’t like to lose my day.”
