Scarlett Johansson Explains Why She Doesn’t Take Selfies With Fans and People Are Loving It

Scarlett Johansson is getting a lot of love on social media after she casually dropped an all-time great quote when explaining why she won't take photos with fans unless she's at a public event.

"It really offends a lot of people. It doesn't mean I'm not appreciative, of course, that people are fans, or happy to see me," she said in an interview with InStyle. "But I always say to people, ‘I'm not working.’ [And that means] I don't want to be identified as being in this time and place with you. I'm doing my own thing. I like to be in my own thoughts that have nothing to do with what other people think of me. I don't like being self-conscious."

After Variety reported on the quote in a tweet, which can be seen below, people quickly latched on to one particular part of ScarJo's comments: "I don't want to be identified as being in this time and place with you."

The quote has since gone viral on social media, with some people respecting her decision to hold on to her privacy and others loving the brutal simplicity of not wanting to be associated with a complete stranger.

Elsewhere in the interview with InStyle, Johansson also opened up about when her husband and Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost swapped jokes with Michael Che. "Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu," Jost said as his wife was backstage reacting to the joke, which he struggled to get through with a straight face. "But I ain’t trippin’. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.”

"It was so vulgar," she told InStyle. "I just can't believe that they went there. I was like—it was so gross. It was really gross. ... My experience of it was so funny." She said she was warned by producers that Che had written a "vagina joke" for his annual joke swap with Jost, which is when they write jokes for each other that they have to read for the first time live on-air. "I was like, 'I mean, it's a vagina joke, how bad could it be?'" she said. "And then as soon as the Costco photo came up, I was like, 'No! No, Michael!'"