Alanis Morissette Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• 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 doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

  Alanis Morissette

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

• Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self, People, Hatred

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette" by Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

• I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Eye, Thinking

• But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspiring, Fun, Offering

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

• I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

  Alanis Morissette

  Opposites, Fame

• I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

  Alanis Morissette

  Judging, Fame, Intrigue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.

  Alanis Morissette

  Motivation, Taken, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

  Alanis Morissette

  Past, Giving, Bankers

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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