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That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone else seems to love you.' But the reality is this: I'm a simple person who's not interested in attention and who just wants to go about her business.

You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.