Celebrity is fame and public attention.

Quotes

• Celebrity worship syndrome … is indicative of a kind of a complete dissolution of the self in favor of another. … Whether it's a mob mentality or a desire to be controlled by something higher than you, these cases are indicative of how charisma can replace the ego.
  • Jack Gleeson, Speech at Oxford Union (2014)

• Celebrity is life in the third person.
  • Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (2014), "Harriet Burden: Notebook D". London: Sceptre, 2014, p. 346

• I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
  • Jesus in Gospel of John 5:43

• “Now celebrities are not ordinary people,” says Clement. “The world treats them differently and, therefore, they react differently.”
  • Elizabeth J. Rosenthal, Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson (2008), p. 293

See also

• Fame
• Popularity

External links

• Celebrity