Cameron Diaz quit acting at the peak of her career to assess what made her feel whole.
The 49-year-old, whose last role before her eight-year hiatus from the big screen was Miss Hannigan in 2014 musical remake Annie, added she grew to miss aspects of her job on her break.
She told CBS: "When you're doing something that you know and you've done well and you know how it works and it's consumed your whole life for so long, it's kind of a nice thing to kind of go, 'You know what? Let me just step back for a second, take a look at what the whole picture looks like for me and what are the things that I could do better and be more
engaged with that would make me feel more whole.' And I did that."
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Diaz is making a comeback to acting and earlier this month it was announced that she would appear alongside her Annie co-star Jamie Foxx, 54, in the upcoming Netflix film Back in Action.