Katherine Heigl Wants Your Respect, Not Your Emmy

Katherine Heigl is putting in the footwork to victoriously earn herself a tall bookshelf of shiny awards down the line. 

Her tactic: land big-time entertainment gig, get famous for big-time entertainment gig, then talk about how poor the quality of big gig was so that everyone knows you are even bigger than said gig.

Kinda Brill!

It worked when Kat called Knocked up (the movie that made her famous) basically a shitty film, so now the actress is trying it with Grey's Anatomy (the show that made her famous).

The latest on her 'I'm Kind of A Big Deal' agenda is to preemptively say 'no, no, no' to that Emmy Award she could have maybe, possibly, perhaps won for the second year in a row.

• 'I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention,' she gloated to the L.A. Times.  'In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials."

Oh Katherine, you saint, you.

The added bonus of Kat's humble speech, as the Times points out, is that Kat gets to take a jab at the Grey's Anatomy writers who pissed her off all year by making her most monumental role on the hospital drama one hokey episode where she saves a stupid deer from dying.

Hey, at least the deer survived.  Katherine's script-writing pals may not be so forgiving when 'Izzy' mysteriously gets pneumonia next season

Pictures of the 'humble' actress attending last night's wrap party for The Ugly Truth with hubby Josh Kelley below (Ugly criticism to come next month).