Funny, he was really nice when I met him. You can tell he does have a bit of a hang up about BTTF but he didn't seem rude to me.Tom Wilson - complete a-hole and he hates BTTF
HANDS DOWN the best celeb I've met is Tom Cruise. Stunningly he was very down to earth and a great guy despite his celebrity.
Everyone's a lot nicer once they've purged themselves of their Thetans.Orange_Blend said:
Uh-oh, I smell a lawsuit.Everyone's a lot nicer once they've purged themselves of their Thetans.
It's funny, I've heard the exact opposite about Cruise, that he's one of those "holier than thou" celebrities that doesn't like mingling with the little people. Then again, that might be "old" Tom Cruise, and maybe he's a nicer guy post-crazy.
The stories of Ron Howard are definitely consistent, though. I knew a guy who worked on EdTV, and Ron would come into the lunchroom every day and sit with different people each time. Didn't matter if they were actors or part of the gopher crew, he just liked chatting with people. And that it didn't matter what you were doing on the film.. everyone was part of the same team.
Harlan Ellison may be a great writer, but when I asked him for an autograph a number of years ago, his reply suggested he lacked a basic understanding of anatomy.
On the other hand, at one Dragon*Con I watched a woman dressed as Ellen Tigh approach Kate Vernon, who played the character. Vernon asked to get *her* picture.
And while they're not celebrities, last year when the members of the 501st marching in the D*C parade noticed a little boy on the side of the street wearing a Halloween-style Clonetrooper costume, just about every 501st member on that side of Peachtree made a point of going over and either shaking hands or saluting him. I know it made his day.
Shared a drink with Ric Flair.
Dude was super nice, but good lord, talk about living your life "in character"! All the bit of a limosuine ridin, jet-flyin, kiss-stealin sonuvagun.
I've also met Peter Mayhew (real laid back nice guy), Ricky Steamboat (CLASS ACT), Brady Quinn (total dick).
I have had very little interaction with celebrities, but of the ones I have met, most were nice.
Hillary Swank - was nice, polite, but seemed a little stuck up. I forgave her when she her hand grazed my ass after we took a picture together.
Michael Ironside - what a super nice guy. We chatted briefly, just some small talk, but he was incredibly nice
Mr. T. - saw him coincidentally at a local comic shop where he was signing autographs. I remember walking in and he was just all smiles and friendly.
I've seen a lot of basketball players but never interacted with them; Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge. I also saw Natalie Portman at a bar with friends when she was going to Harvard.
The good ones:
Lee Majors- very nice guy and great to work with, always took time to give pointers to the extras on the show despite the Director telling all of us lowley extras not to interact with the "TALENT" in-between shoots.
Al "Grandpa" Lewis from the munsters, he was a funny as hell! met him at the county fair back in the day...he even bought my cousin and myself a beer(I was slightly underage at the time...lol)
Grace Lee Whitley Janice Rand from Star Trek,SWEET lady.
Yvonne Craig aka Batgirl one of the sweetest women you could ever hope to chat with.
The Bad one:
I have only one bad experiance and that was with Burt Ward AKA Robin from the 60's Batman. The guy is arrogent and still thinks of himself as an "A" lister when he is in fact a "Z" lister
I don't make a thousandth of what many of these people mentioned make but when someone wants to talk to me I am polite and talk with them. I am also no celebrity, but my customers recognise me nearly every day because of where I work and what I do. I even have customers call me at home. They are the reason I have a job, I can be decent to them.micdavis said:
For the celebs that hate fans, go back to waiting tables.(Most of these posts are about positive experieinces, and I believe most celebs realise they would be hanging dry wall or scrubbing floors if it were not for all those people that want to see them)
I shot hoops with Magic Johnson on Maui back in the early 90's.
A buddy and I were playing at our civic center and he and his friends came in. It was right after he went public about his AIDS.
He asked if they could join us and of course we said yes. He shot with us for about 15 minutes before he asked if he could have some court for some privacy. Very nice guy.
He's either cured, or he is Superman.
You hear a lot about celebs who thank the fans for buying their stuff. I heard about Ron howard, Ronnie James Dio (rip), the guys from metallic (now that they're sober), Will Smith (who my cousin has met) are really cool. I heard MJF is really cool to meet to. I know from experience that Jasmine Guy from Dead Like Me and Broadway is really nice. My cousin is related to her by marriage and she's really cool.
I worked on Friday night lights off and on for a couple years and the cast was all very nice, especially Kyle Chandler.
I also worked on the pilot of the short lived My Generation show. The cast members were all really down to earth.
Met Maggie Grace once and she was super nice and chatty. She was asking questions about myself more than anything. Edward james olmos was also a very nice guy. Bruce McGill stopped by my day job yesterday. Another down to earth guy. I guess I can't say I've had a bad experience yet.
tony todd....really laid back....he likes hats...
malcolm macdowell...was cool, the woman i was with had a bowler hat for him to sign so he seemed to like that
brent spiner came off as an ass.
billy dee williams....super cool.
malik yoba...(new york undercover) and doug E. doug, both great guys, i played football with them between takes on one of the first movies i worked on...
mark harmon, I was working as an extra and he came over to almost every single one of us in between takes introducing himself, asking how we were doing....
george romero, hes like talking to your grandfather....but about zombie movies.
eli roth, being a fellow horror film geek we got along well, so i would say he was a cool guy.
****** tonk man, he seemed happy to just have people recognize him, and his wife was quite nice as well
well thats all i can think of for now
oh yeah, NSFW....aurora snow.....shes quite a sweetheart
the ***** in ***** tonk man is honk y but i guess ***** is a black listed word....
I actually haven't met many celebrities. The latest was Dan Aykroyd - great guy! Very patient - you can tell he loves his fans. I thought maybe he'd sign only a couple items, but, he signed my Ghostbusters DVD, my The Arrow DVD, my SNL Twenty Years Commemorative book, and of course my bottle of Crystal Head Vodka.
Back in 1994 at Universal Studios on the set of the short-lived Suzanne Somers Show, I met Suzanne, Dick Clarke and Chubby Checker. All great, but you got to remember, they were at work. Suzanne actually looked better than she did on Three's Company. Got to chat with her and Dick for a few moments. Chubby's a tall guy - of course he sang "The Twist" and everyone in the audience got up and danced - great fun. It was a cool experience seeing a taping of a show and all the set-up around it.
Ex Pittsburgh Penguin Jaromir Jagr at the Olympics in Vancouver. Just managed to get a quick photo with him. I was born here but my family roots are Czech so it was cool to chat with him in Czech for a bit.
In April, I met Jon Montgomery who won gold in Men's Skeleton at the Vancouver Olympics. Awesome guy. He made our country proud. I may not be able to go to Russia in 2014, but I will definitely be cheering him on in Sochi.
And a couple family friends that play in the NHL (brothers). One actually retired at the end of the 09/10 season, and captured the gold at the Olympics in Vancouver.Both great guys.
So far I haven't met any celebrity jerks.
no jerk story from me but way back, mid 90's at blackpool when the big B5 conventions were on, I was at the hotel towards the end of the day at the bar when stephen furst came over and ordered a beer.
Jelly that I am at this point, I just say "hello, have you enjoyed your day" because I'd seen him looking worn out in the autograph room and he said "fine, bit tired, why don't you join us" and he gestured over to a booth containing bill mumy and patricia tallman.
so I'm trying to act all cool and unfazed and stutter out a sure and ended up chatting with them about 40 minutes or so. they'd asked me how I found the con and we talked B5 for a bit. Of course at this point I had no idea about bill mumy being a child star, lost in space etc and asked him quite openly what else he'd done outside of b5 and there was an amused laugh from him and he told me some tales from lost in space.
I felt like a total ****** for not knowing but he was quite charming and liked the fact that I genuinely had no idea about his past stuff.
patricia tallman is a total gem. really nice lady. cos she's done stunt work as well as acting she had some cool stories to tell too.
That's nice to hear about Pat Tallman. There's a lot of not-so-positive stories about her; having enjoyed her character on the show it's always disappointing to hear stuff like that. Good to hear she's got a better side.
David Hayter: Nice guy. He had a huge line for autographs at a convention and they cut him short by about 300 people, but he walked out down the line and signed stuff and took pictures as quickly as he could.
Louise Page (costume designer for Tennant era Doctor Who): Not an actress, but I have to mention her because she was incredibly nice, answered all my questions and put up with my nerdiness. Altogether I think I spent about 2 hours talking to her at a con and she even asked for a picture with me to show Tennant my costume.
Brent Spiner: Came off as a little bit of an ass, but I think he's just awkward. I can relate to that. If I were in his position I'd probably just want to get out of the room without talking to anybody.
It's hard to figure out the Brent Spiner comments, because he's the "funny guy" of the cast.. those are usually the best ones to talk to.
Let me think about a few of the ones I ran into at Comic-Con a while back...
Jenette Goldstein, Mark Rolston, and Ricco Ross (Vasquez, Drake, and Frost from Aliens), were all signing autographs together. Jenette was a real sweetheart, always had a smile on her face. And she's TINY.. lol. Rolston was very laid back, down to earth. Ross was a little more picky about the autographs and the payment (something about the picture I had signed by all three of them, I can't remember the specifics), but we did chat for a minute.
Warwick Davis is a class act. A friend of mine was getting an autograph (I was standing off to the side for pictures), and they chatted for a minute. My friend had been nervous about getting a photo with him because of his size... do you stay standing up, ignoring the size difference? Do you automatically kneel down, accentuating it? She didn't want to offend him, of course. Well, he took all that away by walking around the table, and reaching up for her, motioning her to bend down next to him so he could put an arm around her shoulder. Big smiles all around!
The other one I got a kick out of was Ted Raimi. Again, my friend was getting the autograph while I got the pictures. While she was waiting in line, I found myself standing next to an older gentleman in a suit. We chatted for a minute, I don't really remember what about.. probably Ted and his many different roles. He mentioned that Ted is extremely forgetful about people he's met, and that if you pretend like you know him from somewhere, he'll assume that you do, and he'll treat you like an old friend. Before he walked off, the guy I was talking to introduced himself. Turns out it was John Schulian, co-creator of Xena! Shook my hand, wished me a great time at the convention, and went off to wherever.
I also saw Kenny Baker walking around, but he was walking with a purpose.. I distinctly remember he looked like he was heading to the bathroom, so I didn't bother him.. lol.
Someone mentioned Gates McFadden up above, and yes, she was very nice and down to earth. She was the main guest a convention I went to.. lord, a LONG time ago, I think the show was still on the air. She was bombarded by fans at the signing, so I didn't get any one on one time, but I do remember one thing she did during her stage appearance. While she was talking and answering questions, a little toddler boy wandered up toward the stage, he was maybe 2-3 years old. Right about the time he got to the stage, his mother realized where he was. But before she could do anything, Gates had reached down, picked him up, and kept talking! The kid was wearing one of those gigantic toy communicators of the time (which was damn near the size of his entire chest), and Gates joked that she wished they had communicators that big on the show. Apparently, one of the most common flubs the actors had was missing the communicator when they went to hit it. She struck me as very down to earth, very friendly, and also very professional. And did I mention beautiful?
My Dad and sister work for the airlines and have met most of the "A" list celebs for the past few decades. They say most are fairly nice. Dad commented Sly was much shorter than he expected. Sis says Woody harrelson is great.
A friend of mine works in the movies in hollywood and defends most celeb behavior. He also says most are just normal people trying to cope with fame. He did say Harrison Ford is a drunk and held up shooting on the last Indy movie 2 days out of 3 because he was too drunk to come out of his trailer.
I've met Beau Bridges and Bill Gates, both very nice in person.
As a child my sister sat next to Danny Kaye on a flight and he was a complete jerk to her.
PerhapsIt's funny, I've heard the exact opposite about Cruise, that he's one of those "holier than thou" celebrities that doesn't like mingling with the little people. Then again, that might be "old" Tom Cruise, and maybe he's a nicer guy post-crazy.
Most of the celebs I've met have been through work. I've never been to a Con so maybe I get a different side of many of them.
I have no bad experiences, only good ones (thus far). Some other nice guys are Kevin Smith, Ricky Gervais, Wayne Gretzky, and Doug Gilmour. Gilmour was my hockey hero when I was a kid so I was incredibly relieved when he turned out to be a nice guy!
I really wish I had gotten to meet John Candy. I hear he was awesome with fans.
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Actors:
John Malkovich was awesome.
Michael Crawford very nice
Steve Guttenberg was great very funny
Bands:
Trent Reznor in my experience was very cool
Glenn Danzig was a When water meets Vinegar and on more than 1 occasion
Skatenigs Very cool but were completely loaded
Nevik Ohgr was awesome
Cevin Key was a diva
Ronan Harris drank me under the table
Johnny Rotten. Tries to hard to be obnoxious
Robert Smith very humble and seemed soft spoken
Dropkick Murphys were hilarious
Hank III/Assjack were a blast. Love there fans
KMFDM were fun to hang with
Chud from Misfits is a very cool guy my ex dated him
Swingin' Utters great guys
...I've met a ton more but for the most part I haven't had many bad experiences
I just thought of one celebrity jerk. One year I met Santa Claus. He seemed super friendly at first. I asked him for a BMX bike for Christmas, but when Christmas rolled around - no bike. What a jerk.Goonie said:
So far I haven't met any celebrity jerks.
I had to pick up George Takei for an university lecture and he seemed friendly enough onthe trip from the airport. Got him settled in and we did some small talk. I went to the podium at the U and introduced him, did a very in depth bio on his career and he walked up to the podium and complimented me for about 30 seconds on how much I had brought up on his past acting career. After the lecture, he asked me on how I had researched his past he still talked about how much I had listed. He was a great guy to speak with, we went out to dinner and he was just a super guy to work with all in all.
JUST worked with Donald Trump on a short project this past month for work. Not much but I have to say he was extremely nice to me and honestly I was not expecting him to be so kind. So a thumbs up for Donald Trump as well.
mez7 said:
Can't tell that he's an ass - the contrary was the case - I showed him the LCARS touchscreen animation even when he had little time (he always touched the interface like a piano), he had to head to the next con panel and I heard from the con staff, that he was deeply impressed (made my day!).Risu said:
A witty humor!Jedi2016 said:
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