It’s hard to figure out what to say when you meet a celebrity. Whether you’re at a meet and greet where you only have a few seconds to try to sum up your feelings, or you’ve accidentally run into a familiar face in public where you should be able to introduce yourself more informally, most of us go blank when we have to talk to somebody we admire. Fortunately, celebrities are used to fans being nervous, but would prefer if you kept it casual and remembered that the people who produced the work that you look up to them for are still people!
Here are some people’s memories of times they did their best to make a good impression, or realized mom and dad were cooler than they thought when they found pictures of their relatives who got lucky enough to bypass the whole dilemma by casually hanging out or working with celebrities.
#1 One Time I Saw Samuel L. Jackson At An Airport And He Saw Me And My Cousin Hovering Around Trying To Work Up The Courage To Ask Him For A Photo And Then He Came Over To Us And Said, ‘Y’all Motherf**kers Want A Photo?
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#2 My Dad With David Bowie In A Vacation In Greece. 1988
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#3 My Cool Mom Partying With Robin Williams And Billy Crystal In LA In 1982
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#4 Old Man With Cigar Spoiled The Photo With Celebrity
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#5 My Grandfather (Right) With Elvis Presley (Left) In Post-War Germany. Late 1950’s
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#6 My Grandma Always Used To Tell Us About This Kid That Would Sing At The Resort On Her Vacations In Hawaii. Turns Out That Kid Was Bruno Mars. 1990
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#7 My Stepdad Did The All The Flight Rigging For Jamie Lee Curtis In True Lies. He’s 70 This Year And Going Strong As An Ox. This Is Him With Arnold Schwarzenegger And Jamie Lee Curtis
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#8 Shaquille O’neal Lifting Me Up By Neck (Realistically, My Arm) 15 Minutes Prior To Playing A Football Game With Him
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#9 My Mom And Bob Ross During An Event In Central Park, NYC In 1989
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#10 I Was Lucky Enough To Pull Over Al Pacino
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#11 My Uncle Photo Bombing Jimmy Carter, 1980
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#12 My Grandpa Worked As A Park Ranger In Yellowstone, Where He Took This Photo Of The Three Stooges When They Visited. 1969
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#13 My Grandma Visited His Store And Asked If He Ever Goes There. He Came Out The Back And Spent The Next Hour Chatting With Her In 1992
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#14 The Time I Was A Little Nervous To Meet Morgan Freeman
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#15 Mid To Late 1970s, My Dad Graduating A Class Taught By Chuck Norris
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#16 My Dad Showing Mr. Rogers The Process Of Designing Toys On Mr. Rogers Neighborhood (1986)
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#17 My Uncle Coached Hollywood Actors In The 1990s. Casually Carrying Jeff Goldblum Around Here. Los Angeles, California
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#18 I Met Burt Reynolds In 1979 In Jupiter Florida At The Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre. My Aunt Was Performing A Musical There. I Even Got A Ride In The Bandit. Was A Great Memory From My Childhood. Rip
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#19 My Grandmother And ‘Big John’ Candy. She Was A Secretary For The Accounting Firm That Handled His Finances. August 1988
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#20 My Mom Interviewing Jagger And Brian Jones For Tiger Beat Magazine In The Late 1960’s
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#21 My Mom With Ice Cube Circa 1992
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#22 My Grandfather With Elvis Presley. 1950’s
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#23 In 1983 I Was Chosen Along With 3 Other Students To Interview Ozzy Osbourne For Newsday/Kidsday Newspaper In NYC
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#24 1990: A Fan Gets A Photo With Bob Ross And A Landscape He Painted Using Ross’ Series
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#25 My Roommate’s Mom Dated James Gandolfini For Awhile In The 1980s
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#26 Terry Crews And His Classmate, Voted Most Likely To Succeed In His Yearbook (1986)
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#27 My Girlfriend’s Mom Met Al Pacino
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#28 My Mom Posing With Eazy-E Outside Of A London Hotel In The Late 80s
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#29 My Grandmother Was An Interpreter For Chuck Norris
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