Cameron Diaz on why she retired from acting: “I wanted to make my life manageable”

nme.com:

Cameron Diaz has explained her decision to step away from acting.Diaz, who last starred in the 2014 remake of Annie, appeared on Kevin Hart’s talk show, Hart To Heart, where she opened up about stepping back from Hollywood to self-manage her life.“When you do something at a really high level for a long period of time, when you’re the person that’s sort of delivering on this one thing, everything around, all parts of you that isn’t that, has to sort of be handed off to other people,” Diaz said.“Just, the management of me as a human being… Cameron Diaz is a machine.

But for my personal, spiritual self, I was realising that one part of me that functioned at a high level wasn’t enough.“It’s fun to do, I love it, I love acting, I could go.