Quote by Alanis Morissette
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, wh

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident – it doesnt matter to me. I think theres a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous. – Alanis Morissette

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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But Ive also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it. – Alanis Morissette

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I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched. – Alanis Morissette

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Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older theres this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now Im in the middle ground – I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. – Alanis Morissette

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You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. – Evel Knievel

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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. – Penn Jillette

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famous

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didnt impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father. – Herb Ritts

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I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous. – Ann Wilson

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