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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.