Definition of Celebrity

Celebrity

Celebration; solemnization.

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.

A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.

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Celebrity Quotations

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson

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

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
Lady Gaga

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

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
P. J. O'Rourke

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen

And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that.
Missy Elliot

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam Sandler

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.
Adam Sandler

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Carol Burnett

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
Julie Christie

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.
Julie Christie

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
Pete Sampras

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
Anderson Cooper

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
Denzel Washington

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
Winona Ryder

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
Winona Ryder

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
Winona Ryder

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
Rachel Zoe

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
Nicolas Chamfort

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
Nathan Lane

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
Jennifer Lopez

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.
Janice Dickinson

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.
Gloria Swanson

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
Gloria Swanson

I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
James McAvoy

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
Puff Daddy

Celebrity hits like a bomb.
Jimmy Smits

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Celebrity Translations

celebrity in Afrikaans is ster
celebrity in Dutch is beroemdheid, beroemd persoon
celebrity in Portuguese is celebridade
celebrity in Spanish is celebridad

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