LOS ANGELES (AP) - Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.

In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was quoted saying: ''Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'''

The quote was preceded by the writer's observation: ''Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good.''

Over the weekend, dozens of celebrity gossip Web sites posted articles about the comment, many saying that Smith believed that Hitler was a ''good'' person.

''It is an awful and disgusting lie,'' Smith said in a statement Monday provided by his publicist. ''It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation.''

''Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet,'' read the statement.