Not me and not met, but a close friend was working on an animal welfare documentary in the UK years ago and wrote to David Attenborough’s management asking if he would be involved. She received a many page long handwritten letter from David where he politely declined because he had too many other projects at the time, and then told her all about the family of hedgehogs living in his garden.

I was local crew for a Weird Al concert several years ago. Al walked up to me and asked if I was from the area. I said yes and tried not to fall to my knees and start worshiping him Wayne’s World style. He asked what’s some good places to take his kids. I recommend the local zoo because they just opened a new sloth exhibit. We talked about sloths for a while and he shook my hand and thanked me for the advice. He was incredibly normal and nice.

I escorted Gary Sinise around for a day. He was the nicest guy, he stopped and talked to every Soldier and would actively listen to them and get to know their stories. We chatted for a while in the vehicles as we were transported from training site to training site.

I first saw him getting off his private plane and he was carrying his own bags which shocked me. You could run into him and never know he was a celebrity.

There isn’t another Celebrity I respect more than Gary.

Tom Hanks comes to the restaurant I bartend at fairly regularly with his writing company. Everyone who waits on him says he’s insanely nice, and if he pays, he always tips at least a bill.

Paul McCartney is an incredibly nice guy. Great tipper, jokes around as if he wasn’t in the most famous band of all time. Total class act, every time I’ve seen him.

I worked at a pretty popular restaurant in Napa Valley through high school and college. Since celebrities are a normal occurrence, staff were never allowed to acknowledge them as celebrities, ask for autographs, etc. Well, Adam Sandler came in, and our 15 year-old host boy was just beaming with excitement. He couldn’t make it obvious or ask for an autograph or anything, or else he’d be fired. Adam, being the awesome guy he is, goes up to the boy as he was leaving our restaurant for the night. He looked at him, pointed in his face, and while handing him a $100 bill, yelled “You remember me for the rest of your life, kid!” with that HUGE Adam Sandler smile. It was epic.

I went to a con and met Linda Hamilton in an elevator. I had ordered a pizza and went down to the lobby to pick it up. She rode up with me and the pizza.

I didn’t recognize her and she looked ad 6 foot 4 inch me and the pizza and said “I’m gonna beat you up and steal your pizza.”

We both laughed and she got off and wished me a good con. I then recognized her and saw her the next day and offered her the leftovers, she remembered and we both had a good laugh!

BB King was a sincerely nice man. Not pretentious at all. BB shook my hand, said thanks, and let me touch Lucille!

He asked if I needed anything and if he could get me anything, and I told him no, but I told him that I didn’t want to hold Lucille, but I’d like to just touch it. He kind of laughed and walked over with it, and let me touch it briefly.

At the time, I had no idea how rare that was, and when I learned that he rarely allowed anyone to touch Lucille, I kind of felt bad for asking, but I’m glad I got to do it.

Not me but my dad. He filmed a Nirvana gig, and Kurt Cobain spat on dad’s camera lens and gave the camera finger. My dad was annoyed as he didn’t really care for their music and owned the camera, but he was pleasantly surprised when Kurt came back over when the Kurt was no longer being filmed, he apologised to my dad, used some tissue to help wipe down the lens and explained how it was part of his act.

Cary and Barbara Grant, I spent a few days with them. I flew them around in my plane, went diving and for a drive and we had dinner with my family one evening.

A few days after they had headed back home, I got a phone call from the local paper and they wanted some follow up information (they had requested an interview with him while he was here). I found out he had acquiesced to their request if they would also include how much enjoyed flying with me in my lovely plane. AND to top this off a week later I received a letter from them which had photos Barbara took of him with each person I had hired to help cook and serve the dinner. They wanted to be sure I would get them to them. He was such an easy going fellow and had a warm and kind sense of humor and they were such a joy to share a few days with.

My stepfather helped build Andre the Giant’s house.

Said he was the sweetest guy in the world, and when the job was done he brought the whole crew out for steaks. He ate two steaks on his own and drank like six beers without even getting drunk. I don’t know how much this applies because I think most people know Andre was a sweetheart who was good at eating and drinking, but there you go.

Sisters best friend used to be a butler at a hotel in Sydney. My favourite story is when she met Jack Black. He got into the room, pointed at the dining table and went “wow that’s a big table, I’m gonna have to hire some friends” and then while she was unpacking his clothes she started folding a pair of his jeans and he went “those are my fancy pants” apparently super nice dude, tipped her like $1,000 by slipping it to her in a handshake. She was never allowed to tell anyone about the celebrity guests until they had well and truly left the hotel.

Met with Bill Murray once. He said something hilarious, gave me incorrect directions, and then walked off looking like everybody’s favorite crazy uncle.

Not me, but my mom has students that have gone on to work in Hollywood (she teaches film) and they tell her all sorts of [things].

Apparently the reason Tom Cruise keeps getting jobs despite his utter insanity and Scientology connections is that he’s one of the most professional actors out there. He doesn’t [mess around], he doesn’t waste time: if you tell him to do something, he’ll do it. He’s apparently a pleasure to work with.

Dr. Phil, on the other hand, forbids anyone from making eye contact with him.

I ended up singing backup for Gladys Knight one time. She was super nice, called us all her children even though we were a bunch of nerdy white choir people who weren’t all that great at singing gospel style.

Taught Chris Hemsworth’s oldest child on a pony a couple of times. He came with us on a walk one time and tried to crack a few jokes that neither his wife or I got. It was very awkward for about 5 minutes as he explained the joke.

I didn’t work with celebrities, but Heather Locklear lived in my neighborhood in the early 90’s.

She herself wasn’t *bad*. It was her and her group of friends. They were the cattiest group of “frenemies” I have ever seen. The worst possible thing you could do was leave the room, lest they all start talking about how fat you looked in those pants or how badly you need Accutane.

The worst was my father. My father was not celebrity-shy. We lived in an area where you could see a famous person shopping at the supermarket. He went to Heather Locklear in the middle of Gelson’s one time. “Do I know you? You look *so* familiar.” She laughs. “I mean maybe we dated or something?” She keeps laughing. “You *sure*? What’s your name, Hannah? Helen? It’ll come to me…”

My father has no shame.

Worked with Misha Collins when I was working for a campaign in Iowa. It was a get out the vote event, and he was just as nice as people say he is. Very clearly aware of who his fanbase is and who was going to be there, and very conscious of making sure that they had a good time. Very genuine and kind with everyone.

Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) used to live in a town a little ways away from my hometown growing up. The people who owned his house before he did used to host a Bernese Mountain Dog meetup/parade thing, which my family would go to because we had a Berner at the time (this was circa 2003-2005). When Giancarlo bought the house, he kept it up and even had the event catered and would hang out with all these random people and their dogs. We knew he was an actor who was on a bunch of TV shows, but he wasn’t very well known at the time (again, about 5 years before Breaking Bad); we just knew him as a really nice dude who was way more OK with metric tons of dog [feces] on his lawn than most human beings. Years later, my mom and I binge-watched Breaking Bad and she flipped out when she realized that Gus Fring had given her children cupcakes and complimented her dog.

When I was a kid I met Jason Momoa while in Hawaii. They were filming the first season of Baywatch Hawaii and some of the cast was staying at the resort we were in. Him and a couple of other guys came down and chilled in the jacuzzi in their red swim trunks (presumably to show off). I did know who he was then but he was a super cool dude and not nearly as big as he is now. I was a teenager and was a little bit bigger and more built than he was. They obviously make them look a little better on camera. Now I’m fat and he’s solid muscle so…

I remember asking if Pamela Anderson was there and he gave me her room number and told me to go knock and say hi. I did not do that.

I worked security for Mac Miller and Ariana Grande was there, wanted to get food, and needed security. I volunteered and we went to a local restaurant. There was just about no one there so we just sat and ate and chatted. She’s not actually a mean or bratty person one on one, she was polite and the small talk was fine, pretty cool to talk to. Seemed like she liked that the place was empty. For someone who seems to *really* like attention, I got the impression that she *really* doesn’t.

I met Garth Brooks at a Red Robbins in Owasso, Oklahoma. He was having lunch with his family and I really did not want to bother him. However, being a huge fan since the 90s , I couldn’t help but keep looking over at him.

Towards the end of my meal with my family (I was home from college) the waitress said Mr. Brooks had picked up our bill. So, naturaly, we went over to thank him.

For the world’s highest selling artist, he is the nicest man on the planet. He signed my hat for me and even invited us back to his place for a tour of his studio when he learned that I was a fan. It was a great experience and I will cherish that memory my entire life.

My daughter went to an alternative high school for kids who had a hard time with mainstream high school. She has anorexia and major depressive disorder. Tyler Joseph (Twenty-One Pilots) comes in when he is in town because his mother is my daughter’s math teacher. He supports his mom and what she does for these kids. My daughter got to have a piece of his birthday cake.

I met Henry Winkler while I was waiting for a table at a well known pizza place. He arrived alone to pick up takeout. My parents said hi and he chatted with my family until his food was ready. He was particularly excited that my brother was a fan of his series of children’s books. Pleasant guy, extremely personable.

My mom teaches Chris Rock’s daughter. He’s pretty down to earth. One time she brought in chocolates that he made and I got some. I have eaten chocolate handmade by Chris Rock lol.

I work for a science fiction/fantasy convention in my area. one year, we had George R. R. Martin. He is basically what you expect, a funny, surly, dirty humored old man. Super fun to hang out/drink with.

John Legend was extremely humble and nice.

A lot of actors and musicians are really shy people when they’re not performing.

Andre 3000. This was over 15 years ago. When I was in high school, I worked a local family owned plant nursery. Andre, his wife, and their (then baby) boy used to come in and shop almost every weekend. He was a super nice guy. One time, he bought an entire pallet of sod. He had a brand new Lincoln Blackwood pickup truck, and the pallet wouldn’t fit in the bed with the forklift, so I had to load it by hand. He went in, bought a pair of gloves, came back out and helped me load it. Also told me that he was going to go home and lay it out by himself. Kind of shocking considering how much that guy is probably worth. Something that didn’t strike me at the time, that I now realize as an adult, was how good of a father he was. His son was just a baby, but man did he love that baby. Every time he would walk up to put a piece of sod in the bed of his truck, he would peek in the window and make a face at his son sitting in the back seat. The kid would cackle like a banshee. After we finished, he gave me a $100 tip, which, to a 15 year old in the early 2000s, was a ton of money. Truly a stand up guy and a very talented artist.

My college professor worked with Bryan Cranston two years ago on a show. She said he was super nice and humble.

Of all celebs I have met, the one I remember most fondly was probably Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin). He was incredibly humble to his crew members, and incredibly nice to the people working at the event his band was playing (his solo tour, not the zeps) – He took time to say hi to anyone in the room, from the young kids running errands to the stage managers and the people in other bands playing that festival. Made a great impression on me to see an absolute legend being so humble and approachable.

The guys in Red Hot Chili Peppers and Muse were also incredibly nice people. Iggy Pop is one of the smartest people alive and a super classy dude. Steven Tyler was fun and also really nice to work with – these are a few that stand out.

I met Dick Van Dyke at a hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was by far the nicest actor I have met. He allowed us to take pictures with him and my daughters. The best part, he had a bowl of Capt’n Crunch on his table from the breakfast buffet. He also had a book with him and I was a bit disappointed it wasn’t “Moby Dick”. Anybody over the age of 35 might understands the reference.

Served John Barrowman multiple times whilst working in a department store in Cardiff while he was filming Torchwood (classic ‘not quite the right request to the story, I know), but he was the most polite and talkative customer, a very welcome change to the regulars who have too much money and not enough manners!

I saw a comedy show a few days ago with one of the comedians being Ray Romano. I waited outside the back by the van with my friend and one other guy. We waited at the corner of the road because security wouldn’t let us get any closer. They got in the van and as it pulled away, the one guy held up a Ray Romano CD booklet and said “Mr. Romano, may I please have a signature?” The van stopped, Ray opened the door of the sprinter, and was super friendly. He signed the Booklet and took a selfie with the guy and allowed me to get a picture with him. Sadly my friend wasn’t able to get a picture with him because Ray had to go but the fact that he stopped the van at all was super nice, and something I wouldn’t expect anyone to do.

Bill Nye. He’s kind of a [jerk].

I met him at a science teacher conference where he was a keynote speaker. The speech was fine, but he was a jerk in the meet and greet. Seemed bored and uninterested and sarcastic.

Steven Seagal apparently likes to be bossed around by women. One of my female co-workers found that out by accident when she’d had enough of his [nonsense] and snapped. He refused to deal with any other employees after that.

My friend’s uncle works cyber security for big name musicians a lot. He told me he worked with Linkin Park for about 5 years, Avenged Sevenfold for 6, Tim McGraw for 3, and Kanye West for 48 hours. Go figure.

Of the ones I’ve met Sandra Bullock was the biggest sweetheart and Kevin Bacon was the biggest [jerk].

Also, a certain lady whose name rhymes with Hennifer Harner talks [trash] about the extras when she thinks her mic isn’t on.

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“My sister was waiting tables in NYC, and ended up serving Patrick Stewart. She didn’t want to bother him, so she just did her job, but at the end of the night she told him how much she had enjoyed seeing him in a production of Hamlet that year (2008), and that she hoped he was planning to do more theater in the US. My sister was prepared to leave it at that, but apparently, he was so thrilled at someone who wanted to talk about his theater work (as opposed to Star Trek), that he ended up talking to my sister for a while about his experiences on stage. Just a really nice guy who loves acting.”

“Some location scouts decided to use my parents’ house for a couple scenes in the Steve Martin/Laura Dern/Helena Bonham Carter movie “Novocaine”.My dad was and is a pretty good banjo player, and he asked Steve to sign two of his banjos. He did, but then they jammed for about 20 minutes in our living room, Helena Bonham Carter sitting on the floor fawning over Steve Martin and half the crew standing around watching as well.It was super cool. And here he is, in my parents’ old living room”

“Bruce Willis. I was out playing golf with a buddy one day when I heard another golfer call up from behind asking he could join us. We said sure and as he got closer we realized it was Bruce Willis. We played 9 holes with him (he’s a pretty good golfer) then he bought each of us a beer afterwards. Awesome guy.”

“Paris Hilton. Met her at the premier of “The L Word”. She could not have been nicer. Introduced herself, asked about what my friends and I all did, seemed genuinely interested, chatted for a bit. She had water in between her drinks so as not to get drunk. The only part about her that sucked were all the leeches that came with her trying to glom on to her fame. When she wasn’t being constantly interrupted by people demanding photos and autographs, I found her very down to earth and clever. The whole s**t she does to be famous seems to just be an act. I never thought of her as an idiot again.”

“I had presale tickets to a Nine Inch Nails show in Atlanta a few summers ago. The system was set so that you could only pick up your tickets at will call if you bought presale. Whoever wound up running the will call booth was dumber than an emu and a couple dozen of us wound up missing half of the NIN set. To make amends Reznor/his PR people gave us free pit tickets to the show in Charlotte, a free chartered bus for travel, free admission to sound check, and the opportunity to meet the band before the show. When I finally met Trent, he apologized one more time.”

“I was in New York with some friends on spring break and we all decided to try and grab some last minute, seat filling tickets. It’s where you pretty much have to sit alone and get bizarre seats but the tickets are really cheap and you can get them pretty much the day of the show without a big problem so long as you aren’t picky about the show. Well I lucked out and got into “Exit the King” with Geoffrey Rush on opening night. It was great, but that isn’t the story. During intermission I went to use the urinal and Hugh Jackman comes and pees next to me (no I didn’t look at his w**g like all my friends ask if I did). I think “Woah, it’s Hugh Jackman” and keep doing my thing. Then Kurt Russell walks up the the urinal on my left. We all finish at the exact same time and move to the sinks. I tell Hugh Jackman I love his work and he makes a great wolverine, but that I thought Wolverine Origins looked like it was going to be terrible (I don’t know why I said this, I guess because I was starstruck). Kurt Russell laughs and Hugh Jackman says, “Oh, like Deathproof was something to write home about.”All three of us laughed and parted ways forever. It was so bizarre.**TL;DR I can pee longer than Wolverine and Snake Plissken.**.”

“I was in Disney world, in the Magic Kingdom to be exact. It was late and I saw one of the shows they have every night as I was headed out of the park to head back. I saw Wayne Brady. He was signing and doing his “I’m Wayne Brady and I’m awesome” performance. I approve. So I ran over towards where he had to leave the stage/area he performed in to see if I could get a autograph or high-five (yes I am still a high-five’ing white boy). He began to walk by me but said good night to me as he walked by, too far to high-five. I yelled out “Say: I’m Wayne Brady b***h”. He was all smiles waving to the crowd,and heard my comment. he slowly sauntered over to me, seemingly not paying attention to me. Then he turn to me, and said “Is Wayne Brady gonna have to get ‘out this car…and choke a b***h?” In a total dead-pan face. Then skipped off like nothing happened.WIN.”

“The funniest celebrity story I ever heard was about Jim Carrey. I had a friend who worked behind the scenes at Universal Studios Hollywood and loved to share this story whenever he had the chance.One day while filming How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Jim Carrey was apparently bored out of his mind and wanted to cause a little mischief. While the tram tour guide was showing the infamous “Psycho House” to a group of park visitors, Jim Carrey decided to dress up as a psycho k**ler with a fake knife he was able to retrieve from a costume director. Just as the tour guide started to drive the tram away from the house, Jim Carrey jumped out from behind the Psycho House and started running after the tram at full speed while slashing in the air and screaming at the top of his lungs.Apparently, Jim Carrey’s acting ability was pretty spot on, as he was able to scare the c**p out of a few of the guests. After a few minutes he removed the mask and shared a laugh with everyone on board the tram. He even signed autographs and took pictures with everyone that was involved in his own form of self entertainment.”

“Alec Baldwin attempted to rescue me and my friends about 15 years ago. I grew up near Wilmington, NC, and my friends and I were out fishing in a small boat. Our lines get tangled up in the motor, we can’t steer the boat, and it ends up washed up on the beach on an island. Waves are constantly crashing over it, filling it with water way faster than we can bail. We send one friend to the intracoastal waterway side of the island to get help. He comes back with some random guy, and Alec Baldwin.Alec stayed there and helped us for a good 15 minutes, when he easily could have just left these 4 dumb kids who weren’t in any real danger. Super nice guy. Eventually even with their help we couldn’t free the boat, so they took my friend onto their boat (with Kim Basinger and her friend) to their house, where my friend called for help. Eventually some Coast Guard guys came with a bilge pump to free us. Thanks Alec!”

“I walked past Conan O’Brien on a street corner in Greenwich Village, NYC. I am a HUGE fan, so I double backed to say hello. Conan was with his wife (this was approx 2 weeks before the NBC fiasco went public, so he was probably stressing about that) and I was with two s****d friends. So I’d forgive Coco for being dismissive… but he was not. He was as friendly, approachable, and genuine as he appears on the show, if not more. He gave us several minutes of attention, he spoke to us, looked at our eyes, listened, joked, he was the f*****g man.tl;dr Conan is awesome.”

“Not my story but its too good not to post. A friend of mine was visiting California when he ran into Dave Chappelle at a hotel. My friend and a few others realized who he was and went to approach him for a picture. Dave was near the elevators and shoved a twix in his mouth so he couldn’t talk like in the commercials then hopped on and shut the doors. F*****g Hilarious.”

“I had just walked into the Whole Foods in Austin when I heard a commotion near the entrance behind me. I turned around and saw a tall blond shirtless man. He was jacked and handsome. Also, he was being asked to leave because he wasn’t wearing any shoes and it was store policy. I knew who it was underneath that scraggly beard. Matthew McConaughey. The patron saint of Texas.I went out to my truck and picked up a pair of sandals I had left there from a trip to the beach. That was the day I solved his munchies crisis. And lost my favorite pair of sandals.”

“Best: Eating breakfast next to Johnny Cash at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis/hitting him with a straw wrapper. I was 7 at the time so I didn’t think it was awesome then, but hearing the story now? Uber cool.I was doing that thing where you blow the wrapper off your straw and shoot it at someone. I was aiming for my parents, but the d**n wrapper just went wherever it wanted and flew right in front of Johnny Cash and landed on his plate. My parents made me apologize and apparently he tossed a napkin at me in retaliation. If only I had been old enough to appreciate how amazing that was.Worst: Ate breakfast next to Gary Coleman at a Cracker Barrel. ‘Nuff said.”

“A couple of years ago, my sister and I were hanging out at the hotel pool in Sevilla. There was no one in the water, so we jump in and frolic. We both spot Bruce Springsteen lounging poolside. We don’t really know what to do, so we just keep playing around, doing stupid things like handstands in the water. A few minutes later, he gets in the pool, applauds our handstands, and asks if we’re dancers. We giggle and he keeps chatting with us, mostly about his kids (who are around our same ages). He asks where I’m going to college in the fall (UChicago) and he asks what date I start. Turns out he’s playing a show in Chicago the DAY BEFORE my orientation week. He gives us his assistant’s e-mail address and offers up front-row tickets to his show for our entire family.Thrilled, we continue to talk (maybe 20 minutes or so), get a quick picture with him, and he’s off.Our parents FREAKED when we told them about our day at the pool. And, needless to say, we went to the concert — which was awesome.Love that man.”

“My wife worked for Bill Clinton in his Harlem office. Bill has the top floors but the bottom ones are are for distributing social security and unemployment checks. People have to wait in line in the lobby to then go up and get their checks. One day Brad Pitt and Angelina were supposed to be coming in for a meeting. They were about 20 min late when someone decided to check on them. Turns out they were waiting in the line (even though they didn’t have to) because they “didn’t want to be rude and cut in front of all the other people.” How can 2 people be that attractive and that nice! It is not fair.”

“I got to meet Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters last fall when they were speaking at the college that my father works at. He’s a janitor, so before the show started, him and I were backstage sweeping/cleaning in general. So, it’s about two hours before the show starts, and while we’re back there, none other than the two Mythbusters come strolling in, each holding f*****g *fire extinguishers*. Adam took notice of me holding a broom, and asked if I was seeing the show. I told him yes, but said I was helping out my dad first. So Adam was like “Well, I don’t want you to fall asleep, we have a lot to talk about!” and proceeded to take the broom from my hands and start sweeping. Jamie had wandered over by now, and my father, Adam, Jamie, and I we all having a good laugh. So, Adam gives me back the broom after a bit, and says, jokingly, “Now clean the stables!” After s******g my pants at *The Princess Bride* reference, I replied, “As you wish.”. He was wicked surprised that I got it (for some reason), and told me that he thinks I’ll love the show. Eventually, showtime rolled around, and before he went on, he handed me the fire extinguisher and told me to hold it for a second. Then, he took it from me and sprayed Jamie with it at one point in the presentation. So, yeah…Life. F*****g. Complete. After the show, Adam and Jamie said bye to the staff, and signed some stuff for us. Also, when I was in eighth grade I got to interview Andy MacDonald for our local TV channel. That was fun, too. He’s a super chill guy, his manager was a complete b***h.”

“I was bouncing at a c***py bar in boston around the corner from a venue with a beach boys concert. After the concert, lots of fans come in, i am not really paying attention and one of them has no ID. I tell him he can’t come in, not looking at the the shorter guy he is with who says “he is with me, I got my ID” and gives me his California license. It says John Stamos. I look up and sure enough it’s John muthaf**king Stamos with a little smirk, short unshaven still really good looking with a hat on. I let them in and they drink at the back of the bar totally incognito. On the way out he thanks me for letting his friend in. I find out later he was playing with the beach boys and the guy with no ID was in the band. He was a nice, unassuming guy which makes me hate him even more for baggin Rebecca Romjain. D**n you Stamos!”

“I think I talked about this somewhere else but f*****g Danny Bonaduce came in my work the other day. I work at a pretty well-known liquor store for the area, most celebs who are from Philly and whatnot come in cause we’re cheap. But anyway, I was the only cashier on at the moment and the store was dead so he was like, the only customer. I was going to say hi or acknowledge him in some way, shape, or form until he started making it publicly known to all my coworkers and I that he was f*****g Danny Bonaduce. Like, legit, when I *didn’t* freak out about who he was, he made sure I knew who he was by taking things out of his wallet and showing them to me. LOOK, I’M CERTIFIED TO SAVE YOUR LIFE (shows some sort of CPR certification card or some s**t) just to make sure I saw his name. I didn’t ask him for ID for his credit card or ANYTHING. I didn’t want to let him win.”

“I actually met Yao Ming years ago and he was probably one of the nicest guys ever. I figured he’d just say a few things and leave but he stuck around and chatted with me for at least 10 minutes.I was really sad the day he retired.”

“In 2004, I was in Boston for the Democratic National Convention for school. Somehow, some of my classmates and I got into the MTV party that was being hosted at which President Clinton was supposed to make an appearance. He didn’t show….BUT, I did get a dance with Natalie Portman!There were different celebrities taking turns on stage just giving pep talks about voting and such. She gets on stage, and is hammered. Full on “How are you guys, woooooooo!” She then shouts, “I wanna dance with all of you.” She exits the stage and gets rushed. Her mini militia of security guards were not having it. They marched past the bar looking like a football offensive line.As soon as they passed, I slipped behind them and walked right up to Natalie (I was already pretty wasted). “So how about that dance.” One of her guards is already grabbing me and pulling me away, and she grabs me and tells him, “No its ok, I wanna dance.” Best. Dance. Ever.**TL;DR : Danced with Natalie Portman.**.”

“Beastie Boys In 1988 I was in 8th grade or so and we were hanging around downtown skateboarding when we decided to skate around the coliseum. Since we were young and poor we did not even think twice about the billboard showing that he Beastie Boys were playing that night with Fishbone. So we continue to skate for a while then these guys come out back and asked to use our boards. HOLY SHIZBUCKLES it was the Beastie Boys. We hung out for a bit and skated and let them use our boards then they just went back in. We were so stoked but still no one believed our story. Even my brother who went to the concert later that night.”

“Dane Cook went to my high school, and before he got really famous the classes before me tried to get him to come back and talk to us and he basically told us to go f**k ourselves (even though he was still pretty much unheard of, this would have been 2002 or 2003). Flash forward to whenever his Tourgasm tour was, and he decides he is going to show up with a bunch of cameras, so he makes all these demands about who can be there and who can’t, including making us bring back some teachers that weren’t there. Even though I didn’t really like him that much I had him sign an autograph, and he took my Sharpie. (Not actually a huge deal, obviously, but I just dislike the guy.)So he shows up, is basically a complete c**k, and performs a s****y censored version of his s****y comedy instead of doing an inspirational speech. So I watched the episode of his show where he goes back to my school, and he’s crying, saying how he always wanted to go back because it felt so good to be accepted, how he loves us so much, how he always wanted to go back. F**k him, he was a d****e to us.**TL;DR: Dane Cook went to my high school and he sucks.**Edit to add: during the performance I was seated next to his mom, who kept asking if we thought he was attractive. His mom mentioned what a s**y young man he had become. Weird.”

“Worst: I was walking Venice Beach during spring break with my friend..and I see a hat vendor shop and me being addicted to hats goes into the shop for about 5 minutes while my friend Rosa stopped to talk to some girl and take a picture. I walked out found her and said “Alright I’m done let’s go eat” and she gives me this stare..like “are you kidding me” Me being oblivious just went back to the hat vendor to look some more.. Come to find out she had ran into **Emma F*****g Watson.** I mean this girl is the background of my phone and I’ve always wanted to meet her and get a picture with her. When she told me that I felt like crying for a week.Best: Spring break the next year. We were looking for a parking spot on Hollywood Blvd and parked in $10 lot behind a store..A friend and I were pissed that we had to pay $10 for parking and would have to walk for about 10 minutes to get to the blvd. As we get out of our cars complaining. **Ryan Gosling** walks past us, and we go speechless. He chuckled and said to us “Hey guys what’s up” I was starstruck and Aaron (my friend) just says, “Nada, paying for parking is a b***h in California”. Ryan ask where we’re from, tell him we’re from Texas. He says that was cool then paid for our parking for the whole dayEdit: Oh, I also met Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long when I lived in Germany. Dad pulled me out of school to go see them.Tl;Dr: Ryan Gosling paid for my parking and I’m an idiot for not recognizing Emma Watson b/c of my obsession over fitted hats.”

“Isaak Asimov had a big crush on my mother – I saw him all the time at her Mensa events. I remember him as the cool, funny looking old guy with the great stories.”

“Met Bruce Campbell at a film festival and he invited my friends and I to join him for dinner. Really great down to earth guy.”

“They Might Be Giants 1994. They played a local college and I was so excited to see them. My friend and I waited by the back door after the show to hopefully get an autograph or a hello or something from our heroes. We were the only ones there. Just two 16 year old fans not bothering anyone. John Linnell comes out of the door and we’re like “Hi!” and he just completely ignores us and keeps walking. Then a few minutes later John Flansburgh comes out and we’re like “Hey great show!” and he says “I don’t have time for this.” and kept going. We were crushed. One of the other guys from the backup band came out and was nice to us but the damage was done. I never bought any of their albums after that. EDIT : best was seeing David Sedaris on the campus of NMU just walking around. I had to say something, he’s my favorite author. He was very nice and asked me a lot of questions about my life and seemed genuinely interested. It was a great moment.”

“Best: I saw Owen Wilson at a U2 concert. I called out “Ka-Kaw! Ka-Kaw!” from about 50 yards away (Bottle Rocket reference…). He immediately turned around looking for who called. I pointed at him, and he give me the two-arms-extended-pointing-at-you-cause-you’re-the-man move.Worst: Saw Octo-mom at Disneyland. That is all.”

“A few years ago, I was working at a PF Changs. Bon Jovi came in with a few of his people and there was a huge group of middle aged women following him around the shopping district the restaurant was in(maybe 10-15 women). It was about 2:30 and he was playing a concert that night. I didn’t say much other than my usual spiel, since it was company policy not to bother celebrities. After they had paid, I asked him, “So what’s it like being Bon Jovi?” He replied, “F*****g awesome!” Everyone laughed and they were on there way.”

“This didn’t happen to me but to my next door neighbor up the street. One of the best stories I have heard.Every year he used to play golf in one of those big tournaments where you pay a bunch of money to play with a random celebrity and all the proceeds go to charity. Well anyway to his surprise he gets paired up with Clint Eastwood. He meets Clint who doesn’t really say much at all and they begin the tournament. For the first 2 holes Clint goes about his golf game smoking a cigar and still not being very talkative. Well they get to the third green and my neighbor is lining up a hard putt and asks Clint “Whaddya thinkin?” Clint stares at him for a moment, pulls the cigar slowly out of his mouth and replies. “What am I thinkin’? I’ll tell you what I’m thinkin’. I’m thinkin’ about p***y…I’m always thinkin’ about p***y…and if you ain’t thinkin’ about p***y, your minds a wanderin'” Put the cigar back in his mouth and didn’t say another word. TLDR- Clint Eastwood is always thinking about ladies vaginas.”

“I used to play a lot of hockey when I was younger, and when Wayne Gretzky was traded to the NY Rangers in 1996 he and Mark Messier got a bunch of kids from my hockey rink to play street hockey with them for a Sports Illustrated photo shoot. I was lucky enough to be one of those kids. Wayne and Mark were the nicest guys in the world, they ended up giving us their sticks, gloves, jerseys, etc. Real class acts. I’ve seen Gretzky a number of times since then and he’s always been super nice.”

“I was in Grand Rapids having lunch with my SO. I looked over at a couple of guys at another table and said, “hey, that guy looks like a gay Nick Swardson” (The guy had a weird mustache and was wearing some very odd clothing). We laughed about it and went on with our meal. We were getting ready to leave and they were leaving as well. It turned out it really was Nick Swardson. I told him how much I liked his stand up and he appreciated it. After we parted ways, my SO points out that the other guy he was with was Jesse Eisenberg. The two of them were in town filming 30 Minutes or Less.**TL;DR** Sometimes gay Nick Swardson *really is* Nick Swardson, and he eats lunch with Jesse Eisenberg.”

“I met Ben Folds after a show in Ohio. It was winter, and it was d**n cold, and he was just hanging out outside talking to people and joking around. He was so awesome! And the show was amazing too!”

“My best is my worst.A couple months ago I was in NYC, the night before moving out of the state. I was waiting for the subway and I notice Louis C.K. walking my direction. It felt so strange because I’m a huge fan of his and his demeanor when walking alone seemed exactly like when he’s on stage or in his show(s).He had a camera and was sort of filming himself as he walked along the subway. He walked right by me and I didn’t want to be intrusive or annoying so I leaned really far back as he passed until he looked at me and I nodded and he just smiled and nodded.Then he kept walking up and down the track and my brother who was with me talked me into asking for a picture. I felt like an idiot because I didn’t want to be that guy, but I decided to anyway. So when he walked by again I said, “Hey Louis,” and when he looked up I said, “Mind if I get a picture?”But the subway arrived right before I asked and I didn’t even noticed so he just said, “Sorry man, subway” and pointed at the train politely.He was a really nice guy about it, considering I was bothering him in public, but I felt like an idiot for not just leaving it at a cool head nod.This all would have seemed far less important to me if I wasn’t a long-time fan of his.”

“During my freshmen year of college BJ Novak (Ryan from The Office) was supposed to come perform at my university. He came down with the flu and had to cancel. He was replaced by some guy nobody had ever heard of: Zach Galifianakis. All my friends were upset that BJ had cancelled so I went to the show on my own and got a seat like five rows from the stage right on the aisle. During the show he came into the audience and started asking various audience members questions. At the time I was unfamiliar with his “Between Two Ferns” routines so I was unaware of how dangerous this situation could be for somebody sitting in an aisle seat. Sure enough he made a beeline right for me. Our exchange went something like this:**ZG:** What’s your name?**Me:** Steve.**ZG:** What’s your deal? (said in a friendly way, not confrontational)**Me:** I study Economics. (the other people he’d spoken to had said their majors, so I just followed form)**ZG:** And what do you plan to do with that when you graduate?**Me:** I have no idea.**ZG:** Your parents must be very proud.Then he left. I got off easy compared to some of the other audience members he spoke to. That next summer The Hangover came out and I got to tell my friends that I “knew” him before he was famous.”

“Repost of an earlier post.I worked an Embassy Suites for 7 years and at this time was a night Manager. My best famous person story is the time when System of a Down (one of my favorite bands) stayed at the hotel and arrived around 1am. They were hungry and asked my to drop them off at a restaurant that was still open. I brought them to an all night greasy spoon diner and told them to call me for a ride back. A bit later they called and on the ride back asked me if there were any s***p clubs in the area. They said they would pay for me to get in and give some cash to hang out and drive them home when they were done. I would have done it for free. I dropped them at the hotel to change and waited. I was pumped to go to the t**ty bar with rockstars, but they called down and said they were going to hang out and drink Coronas instead. They crushed my dreams.”

“I have quite a few…Worked for a local radio station as a promotion girl and quickly became the coordinator of all the other girls (not hard, be s**y and friendly and on time. done) working a large multiband show when a big black dude rolls up and asks to speak to me. Wants to know if myself and the other girls would like to dance on stage with Snoop…Yes please! good exposure for the station and why the hell not? cut to dancing to that “beautiful girl” song with 15 other girls and we all go to leave the stage and one of the PAs say no Snoop wants you two to stay, dance another song with Snoop…hung out after and drank heinikens with him. There was pot every where in the “green” room. He was really nice and didn’t even hit on us.”

“Nick Swardson was playing at this college in my town (before I ended up enrolling) and I was told tickets were for everyone but it turns out, when I got there, that they were for students only. So while everyone was being let in I’m trying to find a way to sneak in or something. After a 15 minutes of wandering looking for a backstage door I saw a door slightly c*****d and as I passed it I saw Nick sitting on a couch. After a little self debate I decided it couldn’t hurt to just walk in there right? So I went up to the room and just walked right in. Everyone immediately looked at me and after a short pause Nick goes “What’s up?” and I respond with something like “Hey I don’t go here but I’m a big fan and I wanted to see your show but It’s sold out” so he responds by saying “Really!? Wow” he then turns to one of the kids who set it up and asks “Is it cool if he just stands on the side of the stage or something?” This kid then responds back with, and I’m not joking “If that’s your wish” and then Nick said to me “Yeah as long as you don’t scream and try and stab me or something it’s cool” I didn’t end up standing on stage but I did get in for free.**TL;DR** Met Nick Swardson, asked to see his sold out show, he let me in for free.”

“Best: Going to high school with Miss USA 2011Worst: Grinding on John McCain in a tightly-packed elevator for 30 seconds.”

“I grew up in Los Angeles, so I have a s**tload of these, but this is probably my fav.I met Hilary Swank at the wrap party for Million Dollar Baby because my boyfriend at the time was a PA on the set. It was an informal atmosphere so everyone was just chatting, enjoying some beverages and munching on some finger foods. Somebody introduced me to her, and I said, “Hi, I’m JeanJacquesRoussbro.” She replied, “Hi, I’m Hilary,” like there was a chance I didn’t f*****g know who she was! She was unbelievably sweet and down-to-earth, for the record. It was also her birthday that day, IIRC. She’s extremely beautiful in real life, much more so than in pictures.”

“Best: Two weeks after moving to New York, a friend gave me an extra ticket to a benefit concert in a tiny, tiny venue. There were a total of three people in the room who were under 30 – me, Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Fallon’s friend. (He was on SNL at the time.) A friend of mine was a huge fan to the point of having camped out outside of Rock Center a few times, so I knew I’d have to say hi to him just so I could report back to her. At the after-party the three of us ended up drinking and chatting for an absurdly long time and he was completely cool. It was like hanging out with anybody my age at a ridiculous schmancy party. Worst: Volunteering backstage at President Clinton’s New Year’s Eve bash in 1999/2000. We were each assigned a celebrity performer, and we’d then have to go knock on their trailer door and walk them to the green room when it was time for them to perform. I was assigned Mick Jones of Foreigner. (Easily one of my least favorite bands of all time, incidentally. And really, does this guy even count as being famous? Halfway into this story, I’m not even sure.) I knock on his door, he’s a complete entitled j*****s about not being ready. I said, “Okay, I’ll wait out here, just come out when you’re ready.” I loiter outside the door, a few feet away. 10 minutes goes by. Suddenly the door swings open really hard. I jump to attention. Foreigner dude is standing in the doorway, wearing full black tie from the waist up and some kind of satiny briefs from the waist down, and he is staring at me like I had just pulled the door open and he is now going to murder me. He quickly pulled the door shut and finished dressing and was, in fact, cold as ice on the way to the green room another 10 minutes later. It was the longest 50-yard walk of my life.Thankfully my next assignment was Slash, who was super-duper chill in this kind of awesome big brother type way, and even gave me a guitar pick after the concert. Also met Bono close to midnight but did not try to kiss him.**tl;dr: spent an evening drinking with Jimmy Fallon, flashed by the second most famous guy in Foreigner.**.”

“Went to an Obama rally in 2008, me and my friends were towards the front and got to shake his hand. When he went to go shake my friends hand she blurted out “I’m in love with you!” He said, “Why thank you very much” and moved on to the next person.”

“A few years ago my family and I went on a trip to London, England (we’re from Toronto), and on our first day we went down to have breakfast in the hotel and Thom Yorke was sitting in the very small restaurant in the hotel! My brothers and I are all huge Radiohead fans so we recognized him and silently freaked out instantly. I have a big family and there were 8 of us on this trip and so when we asked for a table for 8 the hostess struggled to find a large enough table. As she was looking around Thom noticed and said “I can move if that helps”. I thought it was really cool that he noticed and offered to move to accommodate strangers. There are plenty of non-famous people who would never have done that. We ended up sitting at separate tables but I got to sit about 3 feet from him. When we sat down the waitress brought a glass of orange juice to his table and as she put it down said “Oh! You asked for Grapefruit Juice didn’t you?” and he graciously said “I did, but this is just fine”. Again, that really impressed me in a weird way. I then ordered Grapefruit Juice in an attempt to subliminally impress him. It was disgusting.”

“I had brunch with a couple of friends in DC, and then we decided to go drunk shopping at H&M afterwards. John Lithgow was there shopping with two women who I assume were his wife and daughter. Of all the places to run into John Lithgow…”

“Trent Reznor.Both worst and best. I was 17 or 18 doing seasonal work at a Best Buy, he was visiting family for Christmas and buying presents. My manager told me he’d been coming in for years and not to bother him unless he approached me for help.F**k that, I’m going on break. I go smoke a cigarette and see him and his assistant loading his SUV. I go talk to him just wanting to say I’m a fan. Very nice, asked if he wanted me to sign anything. I had my copy of Pretty Hate Machine sitting in my car and went and grabbed it. Thanked him for signing it said it was nice meeting him.Two days later my car was broken into, that CD and everything else of worth was stolen from my car. About a month later my girlfriend broke up with me. Three months later my permanent job at the time (not the seasonal job) was forced to let me go due to cutbacks.Trent Reznor cursed me by signing a CD.”

“Not so much as an encounter, but it was kinda funny and I still laugh about it. I managed to work my way to the front of a Rob Zombie concert at the beginning of the show. He was doing the typical are you ready to rock and getting everyone amped up and everyone was screaming and all as usual. Anyways he looks down, makes eye contact, and points right at me. I won’t lie, I just froze for a second, made the devils horn symbol and yelled “Yah rock!” He waved me off dismissively with a pfft and went on with his set. I felt like I let Rob Zombie down.”

“I was Ralph Fiennes’ cocktail waitress. He was a bit sleazy/flirty and I liked it.”

“Someone on 4chan posted Billy Bob Thorton’s phone number once. I don’t know who did it. I didn’t believe it at first but I called the number. Some dude picked up and said Billy Bob was singing karaoke. At this point I didn’t believe it was really his number anymore so I just told him to tell Bill Bob that “Jon” had called and to call back when he could. Then I hung up.Three minutes later I got a call on my phone, I pick it up and **BILLY S******G BOB M***********G THORTON IS ON THE LINE.** I am absolutely 100% sure it was him, it sounded exactly like him. He asked who I was and why I called and I just told him I was a fan and I just wanted to call to say hi. He was really nice, he thanked me for “sharing the love”. I asked him what he was working on at the time and he said he was shooting the Astronaut Farmer movie and that he was having a lot of fun with it. The conversation only lasted about 5 minutes.To this day, nobody I have ever told about my phone call with Billy Bob Thorton in person has believed me. But either it was him, or a very talented imposter, because it the man on the other side of that line sounded exactly like him.”

“Camped next to Rickey (Rob Wells) from Trailer Park Boys (In Nova Scotia), we drank with him and smoked with him, Best encounter!”

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