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Life's Pleasures Quote by Cameron Diaz

"I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually"

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There is something delightfully unglamorous about a movie star confessing that her great thrill is... grocery Tetris. Cameron Diaz takes the most ordinary setting imaginable and treats it like a private amusement park, and the effect is strategic: it yanks celebrity back down to the level of ritual, compulsion, and small pleasures. The “hours” aren’t about shopping; they’re about control. In a life defined by schedules, sets, and public scrutiny, the grocery store becomes a space where she gets to decide what goes where, what gets handled carefully, what gets “squashed” and what doesn’t. That’s not just domestic trivia. It’s a quiet assertion of agency.

The language does two things at once. “I go crazy” and “so excited” is playful, almost childlike, a way of making adult routine sound like dopamine. Then she pivots to “really anal,” a deliberately blunt, self-deprecating admission that undercuts any whiff of curated perfection. It signals self-awareness: yes, this is obsessive; yes, it’s funny; yes, I’m telling you anyway. That mix of giddy pleasure and micromanagement lands because it’s recognizably modern: the comfort of optimizing mundane tasks as a form of stress relief.

Culturally, it’s also a soft rebuttal to the glossy myth of the effortless star. Diaz isn’t selling aspiration here; she’s selling relatability, with just enough edge in the phrasing to make it feel un-scripted and human.

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Diaz, Cameron. (2026, January 17). I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-spend-hours-in-a-grocery-store-i-get-so-40342/

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Diaz, Cameron. "I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-spend-hours-in-a-grocery-store-i-get-so-40342/.

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"I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-spend-hours-in-a-grocery-store-i-get-so-40342/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is a Actress from USA.

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