HATHAWAY INSPIRED BY Angelina Jolie

Actress ANNE HATHAWAY has credited ANGELINA JOLIE with transforming her life and Hollywood career. THE PRINCESS DIARIES star insists she was insecure before meeting the GIRL, INTERRUPTED actress, but soon changed her outlook on life after Angelina Jolie urged her to "stop being silly".

She says, "I just love Angelina Jolie's fearlessness, Angelina Jolie provocativeness. Before I met Angelina Jolie, I was in this mindset where everybody hated me, and I hated me, and everything was too much. "Angelina Jolie made me see how silly I was, how I couldn't just sit on my ass."