“Years ago, I’m with some friends at this shitty bar in New Orleans. A friend of a friend is playing an acoustic show, and we’re the only ones in the bar. Out of nowhere, this giant crowd comes into the bar, and out of nowhere, Nic Cage emerges. Where we’re sitting, between us and the stage, is a dance floor. He falls to his knees, and starts doing this weird dance thing. It looked like the pic of Hendrix when he lit the guitar on fire. He does this for a very short amount of time, then he hops up, goes ” Woooohooo” and saunters out the bar, quickly followed by all of his followers. It was surreal.”

“Last winter I was in the British Virgin Islands and I ran into Morgan Freeman. He was sailing around down there and his boat was on the same dock as us. First night there, a little girl was fishing next to our boat right off the pier. She caught a fish (pretty small one). Morgan Freeman walks by as her dad is helping her take the fish off the line. They don’t speak any English (they were Spanish), but he says to her anyway “Wow! Looks like I’ll be having dinner on your boat tonight!” Little girl just lit up like a Christmas tree. Really cute. Also, his boat is named “Afro-desia” Brilliant pun.”

“One time I was in a Subway in Orem, UT and Gerard Butler walks up behind me. I look at him, he smiles at me, and then we both pretend that he isn’t himself. I say, “You look like Gerard Butler, he’s one of my favorite actors.” He said, “I get that a lot,” and winks. Then he asks, “Well, are you a true fan of his?” And I say, “Of course!” He asks if I knew what he used to do, I reply with, “He used to be a lawyer, before giving that up to pursue acting,” and then we spent the next twenty minutes discussing law, politics, and why someone would give up a successful career in law. Then, we shook hands and parted ways.”

“I met Lil’ Jon at JFK when I was about 14. My brother and I noticed him but were too afraid to go up. Our Aunt shamelessly went over and said “Are you little John?’. He responded calmly “yes ma’am, I am”. Totally shook my perception of him.”

“About 10 years ago (I was 12) I was walking through the big Toys R Us store in Times Square when I saw Bill Murray stroll passed me. No one else seemed to notice him. I gathered up the courage and said to him: “Mr. Murray, I’m a huge fan of yours and I’d kill myself later if I didn’t at least walk up to you and shake your hand.” He grabbed my hand, shook it and said “Well, you kids will all find some way to kill yourselves anyway, so I better shake your hand now.” Still cracks me up.”

“Bill Nye pulled into the parking lot while my friends and I were hanging out. We thought it’d be funny to go ask him how to make bombs. He said that he would love to ‘show us how to blow ourselves up'”

“I just went through the LAX security line with Marilyn Manson. He had “FUCK” scrawled in large letters across the bottom half of his face, with what appeared to be a grease pencil. As we each removed our boots in the security line, he kindly explained that it was not directed at me or anyone else in the airport, but rather at the paparazzi, so that they couldn’t sell any photos of him that they took. He was really apologetic about it, and covered his mouth around young children while apologizing to their parents for exposing their child to profanity.”

“I met Alan Rickman as he was going into a theater. I blurted out, “I think you’re awesome!” He stopped, turned around, looked me right in the eye and said: “Likewise”, with a smile.”

“Not technically me, but got into a cab and the driver immediately started telling me his last fare had been Ralph Fiennes. Apparently Fiennes noticed the pictures of his son on the dash and driver admitted his son was a massive fan of Harry Potter, so Ralph offers to give him a call. So the guy calls his son and says ‘I’ve got someone very special here who wants to talk to you’, Ralph takes the phone and goes straight in, full Voldemort voice, with ‘So I hear you think you’re a strong enough wizard to defeat me??’ Apparently for the next few minutes all the cabby can hear is lots of tough talk and then a lot of shouting ‘expelliarmus!’ ‘you’ll never defeat me!’ and then a very convincing death gargle. Ralph passes the phone back, signs a bit of paper which the cabby showed us ‘To George, The greatest wizard I have ever duelled’ and then tips very well. pretty cool I thought… Not a lot of kids get to duel Voldemort over the phone.”

“James Franco spoke at my university last year. I waited around after his talk with my friend because she wanted to try to get a photo with him. He was a great guy and took his time with all of the people there. I took the photo, we had a nice chat with him, and as we were heading off, she gave him a hug. I just looked at Franco and said, “Dude, don’t I get a hug, too?” He simply responded, “Come here, man.” It was a great brohug.”

“When X-Men was being filmed in my city, I was working at a grocery store. We had people come in from the film throughout, and I was working a closing shift one night and Patrick Stewart and Halle Berry came in and Patrick and her were walking down an aisle and she had two big security guys with her. There wasn’t that many people in the store but as they came towards where I was working the security guards positioned themselves to I guess “protect” her from me or something. Thing is I don’t give a dang about Halle Berry. So I walked by them, completely ignoring her and looked at Patrick Stewart and said “you’re way better than Kirk.” He gave me a smile and nodded at me and one of the security guards cracked up a little like “he doesn’t even care it’s Halle Berry.” I mean, you don’t run into Picard every day.”

“I met Bill Clinton at a book signing and asked him if he likes squids. He said “Well to watch or to eat”? “To watch,” I responded. Bill was about to sign the next guy’s book and he pauses, cocks his head in my direction and says, “Yes I do.””

“A buddy of mine was having a smoke outside a bar near Detroit, when Bruce Campbell strolls by. It’s a little after 1 am and he’s wearing ray ban shades. One of his friends sheepishly asks “Excuse me, are you Bruce Campbell?”. Bruce stops, tips his sunglasses, and responds with “Well, someone’s gotta be”.”

“Obama bought me a hot dog He came to my university with David Cameron in the spring. I was among a group of students invited to sit by him. He was asking everyone around him if they wanted hot dogs, but they were all reluctant to say yes. I was just outside of his “offer-a-hot-dog” radius, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. So, I reached over and said “I’ll have a hot dog!”. He gave me a weird look, and then turned around. Later, after the hot dogs came (he bought other people hot dogs too), he looked back at me and asked, “Did you get your hot dog?” I replied with a firm “MYEAAAH THANK YOU!””

“I was having lunch at a cafe in Culver City with a friend when Nick Swardson walked by our table. I said “Hey Nick! Can I get a high five? I loved you in Grandma’s Boy!!” So, he gave me a high five and then asked me if there was room for another at our table. We were both somewhat confused but moved over and made room for him, so he sat down next to us and took a cookie wrapped in cellophane out of his pocket and said “Hey, do you guys want some of this cookie? I just got it at the counter, it’s so good!!” and proceeded to break us both off a piece. He asked how our day was going and if we were enjoying our food, then said “it was great meeting you guys, I’m going to go get really drunk now! Take care and keep being awesome!” and walked off.”

“My older brother was at a bar in LA during the night of one of the huge award shows. When he was reaching for his beer Amanda Seyfried (Karan in Mean Girls) took it and walked out of the bar without looking back. The guy next to him patted him on the back and offered a drink on him. It was Tom Hanks. What a class act.”

“Not me but my dad. He’s pretty oblivious to the celebrity world and Laura Linney moved into the apartment next to us and came over to introduce herself. After speaking with her for a few minutes my dad realized he recognized her and said “Wait I know you…did we go to college or something together?””

“I literally ran into Tom Selleck a few years back. I was working at a store that sold cowboy hats and other assorted western things, and on this particular day, I had to dust off a bunch of cowboy hats that were on the tops of the hat racks. As I was carrying these hats through the store, making my way to the back room to clean them, I accidentally ran into someone and got quite a bit of dust on their shirt. I stared at the dust on their shirt, apologizing like crazy, then looked up – lo and behold, it was Tom Selleck. He was super nice. So was his moustache.”

“I’ve told this story before but my friend and I always “call out” everyday people that we think look like famous people. Example: see a red head “Hey look! It’s Ron Howard!”. We were in a bar in Boston and I saw a guy at the bar and I go “Hey look! It’s Sean Penn”. She goes “Bad call. Looks nothing like him”. I look closer and go “Holy crap! It IS Sean Penn!”. So I go up and thinking I am all cool I start talking to the guy who was with him. Sean eventually just turns to me, puts out his hand and says “Hi. I’m Sean”. I am dying inside but trying to play it cool. We start talking and I tell him how I am a big fan of his but also his brother Michael Penn (musician). He proceeds to pull out his cell phone, call his brother and he hands me the phone!!! So I am talking to Michael Penn on Sean Penns cell phone. Michael tells me to call Sean “Sean-ie” cause he hates that. I do it and Sean cracks up laughing. Seriously one of the best nights of my life and why Sean Penn will always be ok in my book.”

“When I was a little I was having Chinese food with my mom in some hole in the wall place in Vancouver, and Steven Tyler came in, and saw me and said I was so cute, and gave me his bandana.”

“When I was about 10 I was in Chef Mickey’s at Disney world, I had about 20 strips of bacon on my plate when a voice from behind me say “easy on the bacon young man” and there was Arnold Schwarzenegger. I told him he was the terminator and he laughed and signed my arm. I’m pretty sure my mother has a picture of my signed arm at the house.”

“I met Ken Jeong from The Hangover in Hawaii, and I walked up to him and said, ‘You can suck my Chinese n–s’. He looked at me kind of weirdly and laughed, we talked for a little bit but he was in a rush to get back to his family. I realized maybe he isn’t as weird as he was in The Hangover and he seemed really calm and normal. But then, just as he left back he yells out to me….. ‘TOODALOOO MUDDAFAAKKA!””