Ashley Greene: Being a 'Twilight' Celebrity Has Made Me 'Selfish' and 'Detached'

By:OK! Staff

Oct. 15 2012, Published 1:51 p.m. ET

The other break-out brunette Twilight actress — Ashley Greene — covers the November issue of Marie Claire and waxes poetic to the magazine about how much her life has changed since becoming a household name.

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"It was a hard adjustment going from zero to 100 in a day. But it was also hard to talk to friends, because you don’t want to be a jerk," she said. "After the movie Twilight came out, some people said, ‘You changed.’ And I said, ‘I haven’t changed, dude. Your opinion of me has changed because I’m working on this film.’ Trust me, my parents would let me know."

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One way, however, in which her life absolutely has changed is romantically. The actress readily admits to being a bit single-minded since her career took off.

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"I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish," she adds. "You go on a couple of dates, and then someone ships off to do a movie. It's not like you're going to fly out and see them, because it's not serious enough for that."