A sign of celebrity¹ is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous² malignity³, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold⁴ it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence⁵ and gratify their malice⁶ by quiet neutrality.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)