Anne Hathaway attending the 18th Annual Empire State Pride Agenda Fall Dinner, New York, NY.

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Anne Hathaway shows off her sporty side as she rides a motor scooter while filming a scene for the upcoming film Valentine’s Day in Hollywood, California on August 11, 2009.

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Fame

In this week’s New York magazine, contributing editor Amy Larocca talks to Anne Hathaway about playing Viola in Shakespeare in the Park’s “Twelfth Night,” the trappings of fame and her “tabloid-candy” break-up from Raffaello Follieri….

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On celebrity:
“There are enough reality-TV stars out there who clearly want attention and fame. I personally don’t think they know what they’re getting into, but it’s a very human instinct. I never wanted to be famous. I just wanted to act. So it’s very odd. Here I am doing something that’s a real actor thing to do and I’m being treated like a celebrity. I was going to take this year off from being a celebrity!”

On getting into the character of Viola:
“I was feeling like I could do more to get into my character…So I decided, What if I walked around New York trying to pass for a boy? What if I had to make people look twice to figure out what I was? I kind of got dressed up, and there were six photographers outside. I was walking my dog, and they know my dog, so all of the sudden I’m in a terribly unflattering outfit, I look like I’m auditioning for West Side Story, and it’s on the Internet! And it’s just like, I’m doing this for my job!”

On her break-up with Follieri:
“I don’t have the words to describe that yet…Hopefully at some point in my life I will have the words to describe what it was actually like, but at the moment, all I can say is that it was heavy, it was shocking, and I don’t completely understand it.”

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