Posted by Adam

Monday August 31, 2009

Gerard Butler insists he doesn’t mind being called a sex symbol — he takes it all in his stride.

The Scottish actor — who has been romantically linked to actress Jennifer Aniston, his costar in new movie The Bounty — says it’s better to be appreciated than to not be appreciated.

“I joke with [becoming a sex symbol] because it’s way better to be appreciated than to not be appreciated,” said Butler. “For anybody to blow it off and dismiss it, they’re either insane or they’re just not being honest or they’re being extremely arrogant. …

“As you’re saying that, my natural response is going to be, ‘Well, I don’t really see it.’ But then again, I do — just on the street sometimes.”

Butler, 39, also revealed that he was once days away from becoming a lawyer but was fired because of too much partying.

“I’m not exaggerating when I say seven days from qualifying after seven years of my life and I was let go,” he said. “I couldn’t deny any more that I had issues in how I was living my life. But I also was in many ways set free from what did feel like a prison sentence for what my soul was. Obviously, I was meant to be here.”

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