Cameron Diaz studies scripts thoroughly before choosing films

Actress Cameron Diaz's choice of projects always depends on her experience of reading the script entirely.

She feels that first impressions can change if the script is read thoroughly, reports Femalefirst.co.uk.

The 38-year-old actress admits she was initially unimpressed when she was given the script for her new movie Bad Teacher, but was pleased that she carried on reading it and eventually fell in love with her character Elizabeth Halsey.

"Thirty pages in, I didn't want to know her and then by 10 pages more I was starting to get her. By the end I loved her. My rule is I have to read it all the way through. It's kind of like the dress that looks terrible on a hanger, and then you try it on and it's the only dress that looks good - after you've said, 'That will never look good'," said Diaz.