Maybe it was a joke. Or perhaps Jennifer Aniston was having a dig at her ex-hubby, Brad Pitt and his new flame, Angelina Jolie.
Aniston was sitting at a press conference in Los Angeles to promote her new comedy, The Break-Up, when a reporter asked if she was interested in using her celebrity to tackle any of the world's important issues.
Pitt and Jolie, in between giving birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel, have been vocal about Africa, AIDS and refugees.
So, was Aniston interested in any global issues? How about the war in Iraq or global warming?
"No," Aniston replied. "I'm not interested in any of that."
"I like to just focus on me and my tabloid career."
Her deadpan answer, dripping with sarcasm, scored plenty of laughs.
Aniston went on to say she had plenty of interests, but opted not to reveal them at the press conference.
This poster girl of the tabloids does not give up too much about herself these days, something Australian journalists will learn when she arrives next week in Sydney to promote The Break-Up.
"I have a lot of other interests," Aniston, 37, said defensively. "But, I don't need to tell you all my interests, but there's a lot."
One campaign she probably would not mind leading is a ban on tabloids.
They ran stories about troubles in her marriage to Pitt for months before the star couple officially announced on January 7 last year that they were separating after more than four years of marriage.
The split then sent the tabloids into another frenzy as they chronicled Pitt's relationship with his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star, Jolie, and Aniston's apparent romance with Vince Vaughan, her co-star in The Break-Up.
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