“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Daniel J. Boorstin 39
American historian 1914–2004Related quotes

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.”
Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan (11 August 2010) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/11/statement-president-occasion-ramadan
2010

“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
No. 3
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

Alcohol in St. Elizabeth Parish Magazine (1905). As quoted in Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler (1921, 2nd edition) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hc1qm3;view=1up;seq=295