Used to do delivery runs for a catering company, and we would get a lot of celebrities at the airport that ordered from us. Johnny Depp was the only one I ever saw face to face. Dude pulled a wadded up bill from his pocket and tossed it at me. I thought it was cool I got a tip directly from him at all, but once I had it all unwadded it was $100 bill.

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George Takei. Bumped into a little Asian guy in a white suit on my way out of a theater, he turns around and goes "Oh myyy, I'm so sorry."

Realized why the laughter from the front row had caught my attention.

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Snoop Dogg - Totally, unflappably chill, 100% of the time. It's like a super power.

Jon Bon Jovi - Smoked a cigarette with him, couldn't have been more down to earth. I believe he's making BBQ sandwiches for homeless people as we speak.

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Dave Grohl as is awesome as you would expect.

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Met Vincent Price when I was a kid. He was speaking at the college where my parents worked and since our house was next to the auditorium we usually hosted the meet n greets. I was only supposed to be allowed in with the grownups long enough to say hello but when I blurted out how much I liked scary movies he stopped to talk. He was extraordinarily patient and kind to a nine year old kid who just wanted to talk monster movies and show off his monster dioramas.

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I met Robin Williams (Rest easy, Lord) on a ski lift in 2000. He was hilarious and 12 year old me heard some very rude jokes. Heard some of them again later on a comedy special. The one that I specifically remember was about how Intelligent Design is BS because of how penises work.

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I met Vin Diesel at a truck stop diner when I was a kid.

It was like 4 in the morning and me, my grandpa and vin and his friend were the only ones in the diner, and we ended up getting sat at the table next to them.

Vin and a friend were getting ready to go on some fishing trip which was made obvious by the clothes they were wearing. My grandpa struck up a conversation about fishing with him, completely oblivious to who he was. He was a really nice guy and apparently knew a great deal about fishing techniques.

I was a bit geeked out and didn’t say much or contribute to the conversation but I spent the next hour of our road trip explaining to my grandpa who vin diesel was and why it was a huge deal we just met him.

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Its pretty well established that he's nice, but Hugh Jackman is one of the nicest human beings I've ever encountered.

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I ran into Adam Sandler outside of a Planet Fitness in Brooklyn in early 2016.

As I was leaving the Planet Fitness, it looked like he was walking in. We made eye contact, so I stopped and held the door for him. He got to the door and stopped right before he walked through, in one of those fake poses that little kids make when you tell them to freeze. I stood there holding the door, plenty confused. For about five seconds, we just stood there- him, motionless and I, standing there holding the door. Finally, he turned his head and said in the stereotypical Adam Sandler voice, "Ahhh, who we kidding? I'm not going in there!" Giant grin on his face. We both laughed and then he continued down the street.

Awesome.

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I had a chance to work with Witney Houston for eight days on a film set. I was working as an extra. She was nice, kind and personable. Her beauty was more striking in person.

She was very professional she did not miss a mark or a cue. Everybody on the set cried when she sang. Whitney Houston was very nice to me and complimentary she spoke sweetly and in a motherly tone when she greeted people. I can still rememer her friendly greetings when she arrived on set every day.

That was one of best experiences of my life and best experiences working on a film set. I learned a lot from her about professionalisim on a film set. I also saw how hard she worked. She was there twelve hours a day and on point every minute. I watched how she interacted with the director other actors and crew. She was even encouraging to other actors and performers in the film even the extras.

It was heartbreaking when she passed. I still have the dress that I wore in that film she admired and complimented me about the dress. An actor/ musician I know was booked to perform at the event Whitney Houston was to be at the day she passed he was also staying at the same hotel. He called me and told me she was gone then he started to cry.

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Lewis Black is f**king awesome. I was in Vegas with some buddies Veterans Day weekend and we spotted him playing craps. I stood near him and watched because a) it’s Lewis friggin Black and b) I’ve never played craps so I had no idea what was going on. He noticed me, asked if I knew how to play. I said I didn’t and he immediately spent $200 teaching me how to play craps and wouldn’t let me put any of my own money down since I was learning. We chatted, he asked what we were doing in Vegas and we mentioned celebrating the Marine Corps birthday and Veterans Day. He thanked us profusely for our service and asked if we wanted tickets to his show the following night. I’m a bigger fan than my friends were so I said yes I’d love to come see his show. He said he would leave tickets for me at will call. My sister met up with me the next day and we were super pumped about the show, but joked that it was too good to be true and there wouldn’t actually be tickets waiting for us. Sure enough, Lewis Black is a man of his word and left me four free tickets at will call, and not only that but they were good tickets, like third row center. He put on a great show and I will forever enthusiastically support him. He made great conversation, was patient and kind teaching me to gamble on his own dime, and kept his promise of tickets for me. A+ guy, despite his angry ranting comedic style

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Ed Sheeran - before the fame I met him when he was the support act at a gig with an audience of maybe 100 people. After his act I got chatting to him and he said he’d come play at my student house if I paid for his train and gave him a couch for the night. We took a pic together and slightly tipsy I told him he’s going to be famous. It felt like he was on the radio a matter of day’s later, so I never got my private gig. Aside from being unable to keep promises he was very pleasant.

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met Matthew Lillard, his wife, and newborn daughter like literally after the release of the 1st Scooby Doo Movie. My family always host 4th of July parties in our beach house, and he party crashed. I was like 7 or 8 at the time and my cousins were freaking out saying "Shaggy is here!". Of course I immediately sprinted over and he was eating a hot dog (super cliche I know since it's the 4th of July lol). He was so cool. The whole time he was in character and offering me to have him go get a hot dog for me. I remember my little cousins asking where Scooby was at and he replied, "Oh Scoobs ate sooo many hot dogs that he's like, having a food coma". Seriously, one of most highlighted memory dating back to my youth

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Taylor Swift - met her after the 1989 show in my city. Super nice and easy to talk to, felt like we were old friends. But what was crazy was she knew the guy standing next to me just from Tumblr (this was back when she used it a lot and he ran a TSwift fan tumblr). She knew his name, knew all these personal details about him and was really excited to meet him! It was very sweet.

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Paris Hilton - I didn't meet her in person. But I worked for an airline answering phones as a supervisor. She called in to change her itinerary on New year's Day years ago when she was very much in the public eye. It would have been about 3:00 a.m. where she was, and I could hear the party going on in the background. She was my very first call of the morning where I was on the east coast. 7:00 a.m. I was hungover as f**k, and in no mood to be at work. She was absolutely the nicest person to deal with. She was really sweet and patient, she made small talk while I changed her reservation and seemed genuinely kind. I was pleasantly surprised.

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I work as a background extra and sometimes get to meet cool people: John Cusack was very nice! Billy Bob Thorton is AMAZING, there was only 10 of us working with him on a night shoot and he took the time to introduce and shake each of our hands. That never happens. Keanu is a doll, Tom Hardy is cool. I lost my s**t over James Hetfield (Metallica) and he couldn't have been nicer. 13 reasons why cast was cool, they stuck to themselves but would say hi to us if they recognized us after awhile. (I was part of one of the core groups.) TBH I've yet to work with a d**k.

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Mark Ruffalo was a sweetheart, Javier Bardem was cool! (Really short though which surprised me cause he always seems so intimidating and overbearing in movies-great actor)

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For a couple years I went to a private school in Connecticut. My last year there, Bill Murray's sons transferred in. Neither was in my grade, but one of them was in the play with me. I was super nervous, but I was an SNL fan my whole life and had the 20th anniversary book that talked about all the cast members and behind the scenes stuff. After the show I (really shyly) said hi and told him I was a fan and asked him to sign it. He said "whoa! I haven't even seen this yet! Cool!" and then told the biggest lie ever told and said I was good in the show (I was awful, I forgot all my lines).

Weirdly, this wasn't the first time I saw him. When I was about 6 we were at a restaurant in new jersey and he and his wife were at another table. Ghostbusters had just come out and I wanted to say hi but my parents stopped me.

Nice dude.

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I’ve written this before but I worked at MuchMusic in Canada. Quick stand outs are that: Taylor Swift was extremely nice, very polite and easy to work with, smelled amazing LOL, great person overall. Very nice to our crew. Ryan Reynolds was a prick, people are always surprised when I say that but out of all the celebs I had to work with, he was the worst. I don’t give a s**t if he’s twitter’s darling right now. Fall Out Boy were nice, Patrick and Pete were kind of strange and awkward, but nice dudes overall. Robert Pattinson (this was during the twilight days) was so odd and strange but a really cool guy, easy, down to earth. You could tell he didn’t give a s**t about Twilight but he was funny and cool about it. Treated us all with respect.

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When my dad was about 9 (1964ish) he was on a plane from LA to Heathrow in coach with his mom. The stewardess came back and excitedly asked him if he wanted to ‘meet a beatle??’

My dad said sure but didn’t really know the Beatles at that age, and only said yes because that’s kinda what you do at that age. He sat on the couch next to George (different time, airlines treated you like people), George folds up his newspaper and says, “soo, do ya like my music?”

My dad says (like a confused 10 year old) “um, no”. Apparently George smiled and went back to reading his newspaper. My dad sat there like a doofus for like 5-10 minutes until the stewardess came and got him.

So George Harrison was cool to children, and my dad’s the most Stone cold 10 year old ever

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Bumped into Gordon Ramsay in the lift in a hotel in Hong Kong. He was very friendly. We didn't talk to him or ask for a picture. I just blurted out "You're Gordon Ramsay!" and he aknowledged and smiled. He insisted on us going first because we had our suitcases with us, wished us a nice day, said bye several times when we saw him in the lobby again. Very friendly!

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My mom met Bob Marley outside of a concert out of pure luck. Her friends had already left without her and he got a security guard to drive her home.

Years later her best friend gave my mom a signed poster that said he hoped she was doing good and had better friends.

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Dave Chappelle and his family live a few miles from where I went to college, and he and I frequented the same Starbucks. I ran into him about ten times. One day he sat with me for about 45 minutes and talked about screenwriting. It was amazing. He’s as down to earth as his stage persona suggests, and it’s no wonder he opted to raise his family away from L.A.

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Adam Sandler. He is super nice we met him at my aunts lake house. Such a sweet guy he brought his family over and we hung out with him for like 3 hours and we just chilled. He is an amazing dude.

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Pink the singer (in 2004) was incredibly friendly in a natural down to earth way, considering she was on the height of her fame at the time.

She was also shorter than me (13 years old then) and smelled VERY fruity and waited patiently for my mom to figure out how to take a picture of us with her phone. Cool person.

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Met Peter Cullen (voice of Optimus Prime and Eeyore) at Botcon in 2012. They had a raffle system set up for autographs/meet and greets. He saw a bunch of us standing off to the side, including a man next to me who was sobbing because Peter meant so much to him. Peter full on RAN from the line he was supposed to be autographing and bear hugged this guy for at least a solid minute, patting his back and saying “It’s all right. Everything is okay. I’m here now,” while the guy sobbed on him. Then Peter autographed all our memorabilia and was whisked away by some very angry con staff.

Wonderful, wonderful man. Class act and genuinely kind.

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Peter Dinklage is a lot of fun! Really cool guy. His laugh is incredibly infectious.

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I didn't actually meet him, but Tracy Morgan bought my younger sister an iphone many years ago. Hers broke, and his gf, now wife, at the time lost her phone at the Superbowl or something so that's why he was at the same Verizon store.

The Verizon employee said my sister's damage wasn't covered under insurance and my mom couldn't afford to buy her a new phone, and my sister I guess clearly got emotional because Tracy Morgan, who had been talking to my mom for a bit before while they were waiting (my mom and sister had NO idea who he was until my dad came in and recognized him) bought the phone for her.

My mom tried to say no but he said to just pay it forward.

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Stan Lee. He was my neighbor for a while, and he directly wrote me letters which I now have framed on my wall. Tom Brady wasn't great, Steven Tyler was really cool/chill, but Stan Lee was the best by far.

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Lenny Kravitz was one of the most humble people I've met. Incredibly down to earth, laid back and friendly.

Prince Charles was also pretty friendly. Would look you directly in the eye during conversation and make you feel like there was no one else in the world but the two of you - despite being constantly surrounded by others.

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Jeff Goldblum. Met his wife and children as well. They were all kind and sweet .His real life persona matches the on-screen one exactly.

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I knew Shaquille O'Neal in college occasionally. I wasn't associated with the athletic program at LSU but had friends who were, so I ran into him often enough to kinda-sorta get to know him.

He was a huge goofball back then too.

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went with my parents to a function for some charity group and we shared a table with Ice-T. Super nice guy, down to earth and not high on himself. He has a mouth on him but when he found out my Dad is a retired preacher never heard a bad word again the rest of the night. I ended up talking music and how he goes from Rap to Metal. Man is cool and knows his sh*t about the metal and Punk scene.

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Scarlett Johansson back in 2011 at a Starbucks.

Super sweet and really bubbly. Thought she would come across as a bitch or standoffish, partly because it was early in the morning, like 5:30-6:00 am. Not at all, she was so nice. Made her laugh after I told her I was a huge fan of one of her earliest films, Home Alone 3 (which really is one of my favorite childhood movies).

She just had this charming aura about her.

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I spent a day with Adam Sandler on the set of Mr. Deeds back in 2001 as part of my brother's make a wish. Guy was really down to earth and his entire crew were all very accommodating and sensible. As I get older, I continue to read good things about him from other fans.

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I met Chris Hemsworth when I consulted on a movie. Super nice guy.

Met Lisa Edelstein at a starbucka in SF, her smile is even more impressive in person.

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I met Hilary Duff when I worked at a grocery store (she was having a party and came in for some cheese and crackers) She was super friendly.

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My Grandma sat next to Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) on a plane before he was famous for ice ice baby. She knew who he was but didnt want him to know. They had a lovely 4 hour conversation and she said he was really intelligent and nice.

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I served Piers Morgan as a waiter and he was unbelievably polite, which maybe some people would find surprising

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I was working on a set once where John C. Reilly acted as one of the main characters. It was a pretty small set and low budget (not even sure if the show ever aired) so we all found ourselves working closely together for the most part.

I sat across from him during lunch one day and we chatted for a bit about random stuff. The guy talks the same way he acts, which is why I think he plays such a great character in any comedy because he quite literally plays his own attitude in many roles.. at least it seems.

But anyway he was a very nice and down to earth guy, I found it hard not to giggle every time he spoke because I just couldn't shake the image in my head of all the roles he's played.

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Ewan McGregor accidentally ran over my bf's foot a couple of years ago when he was filming his Long Way Round series. He was absolutely lovely though, my bf loves bikes so he was over the moon bless him. Apparently they talked about his GS for a couple of minutes together, apparently it's one of his favourite memories. He had to restrain himself a little from roasting the GS as they are notorious for their unreliability

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I met Phyllis Smith (Phyllis from The Office) and she was a sweetheart.

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It is probably not at all surprising but I met Alison Brie about 10 years ago and she was super lovely. It was in NYC at a Fashions Night Out event. Im a big Community fan and mentioned so to her. She was very nice, took a photo with me and complimented my necklace.

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Met Dave Chappelle a few years back. Long story short, a friend of a friend got me and two friends into an after party. We were sitting at the bar when his manager offered us some shots. We talked with his manager for a while. Then Dave sat down near us. Dave was kind of sitting by himself and he looks over at us and goes “What’s going on fellas?” And we talk to him for about an hour. We thanked him for coming to our town, talked about music, sports, all kinds of stuff. Super cool dude. One of my favorite memories.

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It was my first time in NYC. Just got off the plane and had my luggage in hand walking to my airBnB. It was probably 2 am and I heard a very distinct laugh; I looked across the alley and it was Sal from the impractical jokers standing outside of a comedy club smoking weed with his buddies. I went up and got a picture and talked about what to do in the city. I told him I’m from Oklahoma and he almost fell down laughing and said “nobody is really from Oklahoma!”

It was great. Super cool dude.

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