“A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.”

—  Steve Martin

Last update May 10, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair." by Steve Martin?
Steve Martin photo
Steve Martin 81
American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and… 1945

Related quotes

Daniel J. Boorstin photo

“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.

“[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals”

Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist

Anatol Rapoport (1954, p. 75); as quoted in: Samuel Leinhardt (1977) Social Networks: A Developing Paradigm, p. 350
1950s

Warren Farrell photo
Richard Rodríguez photo
Chadwick Boseman photo
Marilynne Robinson photo
Theresa May photo

“More people vote for a TV show than a political party. And those who do vote think a man dressed as a monkey is more likely to deliver on his election pledges than any party.”

Theresa May (1956) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech to the Conservative Party conference http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/07/conservatives2002.conservatives1 (07 October 2002)

Chiaki Kuriyama photo
Michel De Montaigne photo

“There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.”

Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
Variant: There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

Richelle Mead photo

Related topics