Fame & Celebrity Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

Fame is like Alzheimer's disease: you don't know anybody, but they know you.

Tony Curtis

As a northerner, I prefer to get my celebrity gossip ( just like Wallace and Gromit ) from AyUp! magazine.

Hiring a bod to write an autobiography is equivalent to paying someone to take a bath for you.

Fame is a bee that has a song and a sting.

The dealer's quotation has the exploitative, chic pricing that is normally reserved for celebrity perfumes.

We use the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into the headline.

Mick Hucknall is an example of the ugly guy who thinks fame is a beauty treatment.

The distorting lens of fame makes people ugly with self-consciousness.

As superfluous as pointing out someone is famous; if you need to then it isn't true.

Becoming famous had a feeling of free fall or imminent levitation, like being in a back-seat passenger in an accelerating fast car.

Sometimes I feel like Tom Jones. I'm told it's not unusual.

Speed reading this 'celebrity' autobiography was like a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat.

Fame is climbing a greasy pole for ten pounds and ruining trousers worth twenty pounds.

A magnifying glass is a metaphor for fame: it enlarges flaws as well as qualities; the dirty pores and blackheads are there for all to see. Like a magnifying glass, fame can distort, invert, and ( with the glare of publicity ) focus the light into a terrible heat that burns the victims until they shrivel into nothing.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley

Fame is a mask that eats the face.

Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident, riches take wings, the only thing that endures is character.

Yes, you once appeared on a reality TV show, but, don't you think you are milking that prize Fresian until the udders are raw?

On the catwalk, the designer was a figure of awe, as if Napoleon dressed for his coronation.

( A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised. )

Hello! Magazine is to serious issues what the World Wrestling Federation sticker album is to children's literature.