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"When I go out, I love steak and caviar"

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Luxury, in Cameron Diaz's mouth, lands less like confession than calibration. "When I go out" builds a neat boundary between public ritual and private routine: indulgence is framed as an event, not a default setting. Then she names the menu with two blunt status symbols, steak and caviar, foods that function as shorthand for appetite with money behind it. There's no garnish of apology, no performative "but I'm low-key" aside. The line is casual, which is the point: it normalizes high-end taste as just another preference, like ordering spicy.

The subtext is celebrity economics made conversational. For a movie star whose image has long been sunny, accessible, and girl-next-door adjacent, the statement offers a controlled peek behind the velvet rope. It's aspirational but not ornate; she doesn't invoke vintages, terroir, or a chef's name. Steak and caviar are recognizable to anyone scrolling a tabloid or watching a red carpet interview. The specificity is doing PR work: it signals "I have arrived" without sounding like a dissertation in fine dining.

Context matters, too: female celebrities are routinely pressured into performing restraint, virtue, and relatability. Diaz sidesteps the diet-culture script by talking about pleasure and protein, then doubles down with caviar, a food practically invented to be envied. It's a tiny act of defiance wrapped in breezy charm: wealth acknowledged, desire unpoliced, and the whole thing delivered as if it's perfectly normal.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Diaz, Cameron. (2026, January 17). When I go out, I love steak and caviar. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-go-out-i-love-steak-and-caviar-45443/

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Diaz, Cameron. "When I go out, I love steak and caviar." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-go-out-i-love-steak-and-caviar-45443/.

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"When I go out, I love steak and caviar." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-go-out-i-love-steak-and-caviar-45443/. 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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