1989 Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.”

— Daniel Rodriguez

“Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive”

— Dean Cavanagh

“ Celebrity obsession is often emotionally and logistically shackling to the country’s most prominent and successful people, and this ultimately hinders those wealthy, powerful,…

— Catherine Lacey

“For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the…

— Emily Thorne

“A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”

— Lady GaGa

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

— Aesop

“We lived in a me-first world obsessed with morally inconsequential celebrities of dubious motivations and shallow character. How or why these people had become…

— Bobby Underwood

“Its hard to be famous and a celebrity. You have to fight to get in. Once you are in. You have to fight to…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

— Ouida

“They’re only famous because the public needs to believe that there are people worth idolizing—it’s the malady of the herd.” “I”

— David Simpson

“Celebrity’ is increasingly the only role the media can process,”

— Charlie Brooker