Ever Met Any Celebrities? What were they like? Quentin Tarantino Story Inside.

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Anyone have any stories about meeting celebrities/athletes/etc? Specifically what did the interactions entail and how would you describe their demeanor? I always find it interesting seeing what public figures are like in person. I'll start off with a very surreal event that happened back in '06, the Summer after I graduated from high school.

I was visiting a high school friend who had recently moved to Austin, Texas. Me and 3 other buddies flew out to visit him. It was a great town and we had a blast. While we were there we decided to go see the premier of Snakes on a Plane at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater. As we are getting seated and ordering I notice about 8 seats or so reserved in the middle of the theater at the prime viewing area. The area has a chiller in the middle filled with ice and Samuel Jackson beers, they actually have the label they used from Chappelle's Show, it was hilarious. Anyway, before the movie starts in come a group of people, among them were none other than Quentin Tarantino and Rosario Dawson. This was right after high school and at the time I thought Pulp Fiction was the best movie ever, so it was pretty cool to be sitting down to watch a movie almost arms length away from the man himself. I had also thoroughly enjoyed The Rundown and Sin City, plus Rosario Dawson is a babe, so we were pretty excited to see her, too.

Well the movie starts and right away I notice Tarantino is on a mission to get tanked. Dude starts going through beers pretty damn fast, probably easily had a dozen by the end, but I wasn't really counting. The rest of his party is pretty close to keeping pace as well. After the movie we decide to go up to them to just tell Tarantino how much we love his work, etc. Dude was cool as shit but by this time he was absolutely wasted. He was sweaty and pretty damn fat at the time. My buddy was wearing a Rick James shirt and he commented on it and started half-assed singing Rick James songs. My other buddy goes up to Rosario Dawson and tells her how much he liked her in Rent because he was a fucking drama nerd. He then asks her to touch his mustache as kinda like a gag or something I guess. She looks over at her female friend, does this eye roll and sigh combo, then pulls down her shirt and rubs her tits in his face. At that point we went absolutely ape shit and pretty much ran out of the theater smiling like madmen and hyped as fuck on the ride home. I got a picture of Tarantino looking wasted and disgusting, but it died with my old flip phone. Either way it was probably the coolest experience we could have had at the time short of banging Rosario Dawson. Both people seemed incredibly fun and friendly (obviously).

Also I trained with a few pro fighters like James Irvin and Scott Smith. Both were very unapproachable and impersonal.

Curious to hear if anyone else there has some interesting stories. Sorry for the wall of text, here is a picture of Ms. Dawson for your troubles.

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edit:

Got a little bit of corroborating evidence to back up my story since I was getting a bit of skepticism on here. Did a little internet sleuthing to try to find a pic of Tarantino at that theater and I found this Reddit post from over a year ago from another person who was at that showing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/2wrovb/i_saw_someone_get_kicked_out_of_the_alamo/

I was at the opening night for Snakes on a Plane, and there were snake handlers from the Snake Farm with live snakes. They did a pre-show and then we watched the movie. Quentin Tarantino (extremely drunk) was there and he was sitting right behind me. Throughout the whole movie he shouted at the screen, he got up a lot and yelled whenever Samuel L Jackson got on screen, yelling "That's my boy! That's my Sammy" and so on.

I raised my card a few times trying to get him kicked out, but got no where with it.

The lesson here is be Quentin Tarantino

Now I didn't hear him yelling or being disruptive during the movie personally but I was sitting two rows behind him not in front of him like the person posting on Reddit. Plus the theater was pretty loud and raucous anyway so maybe he was yelling and it was just drowned out by all the other drunk asses.

I will be accepting my apology whenever you are ready @fbgn

Unless you guys think I made that post on Reddit over a year ago in some grand scheme to make up a fake Tarantino story on Sherdog in the distant future.
 
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literally none of this happened
 
literally none of this happened

Is Quentin Tarantino being a fat, sweaty, drunk really that unbelievable? The only thing extraordinary about that encounter is Rosario Dawson rubbing her tits on my friend's face. Given how many celebrities there are some people on here who have probably done coke with a celeb or banged one of them.
 
I saw Rory Macdonald at TD bank in Langley after his win over BJ Penn lol. He was busy at the till, So I just walked up and quickly said " Hey man, awesome fight on the weekend" and he said " Hey thanks man, that means a lot".

Thats all I got.
 
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I got Haylie Duff's AIM screen name from a friend that is in the movie industry. Her away message was something about performing that night in a play.

I IMed her "break a leg!"

She wrote back "who r u" and then blocked me.


So, total bitch.
 
I got Haylie Duff's AIM screen name from a friend that is in the movie industry. Her away message was something about performing that night in a play.

I IMed her "break a leg!"

She wrote back "who r u" and then blocked me.


So, total bitch.

Hahaha! You missed your chance to get some of the Duff sister action.
 
Once Bobby Flay passed by me. I said, "Bobby Flay ! ! " He turned around and gave me that trillion dollar food network smile.

Once I eating at Maria Pia Trattoria in Manhattan on 51st and 8th. Joe Theismann was there too. He is really fit for his age, and looks well. He looks the same as he did 15 years ago when he was TV more. A U-20 soccer game between US and Jamaica was on the TV, and we chatted about that for like three sentences.
 
I worked at LAX for many years, so I got the "opportunity" to meet countless celebrities...

Some that stand out...

Levar Burton...kind of a jerk, which wasn't surprising, based on previous stories.

Brock Lesnar...jerk (see Levar Burton).

Mila Kunis...super tiny, kind of wack.

Ken Shamrock...nice guy, pretty small in person.

Roy Jones Jr...seemed very nice. Also saw him at Magic Mountain, good experience as well.

Ted Dibiase...BIG man.

John Cena...HUGE forearms.

Eric Bischoff...super cool dude.

Bas Rutten...super cool dude.

Big Show...BIG.

Pedrito Fernandez...super cool!

Mind you, my interaction with them was rather limited, and some of their attitudes could easily have been attributed to the fact they were flying out of, or through LAX.
 
I got Haylie Duff's AIM screen name from a friend that is in the movie industry. Her away message was something about performing that night in a play.

I IMed her "break a leg!"

She wrote back "who r u" and then blocked me.


So, total bitch.

Should have replied with this link...

 
I got Haylie Duff's AIM screen name from a friend that is in the movie industry. Her away message was something about performing that night in a play.

I IMed her "break a leg!"

She wrote back "who r u" and then blocked me.


So, total bitch.

I actually seen Hillary Duff in the mall once. She gave me the big eyes like she wanted to bang. I obviously denied that because I post on sherdog and haul in 11s on the reg.
 
I met R. Lee Ermey and Evander Holyfield at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It was a two day event and they were there for a charity event. Didn't spend any personal time with them, but they were both cool and down to earth while they interacted with the group.

Evander's head was huge.


 
Saw Mike Tyson at the Hard Rock in Vegas one time. I said Hey! and he said whats up? And we both kept walking.

True story.
 
A few pro fighters. I used to train at 10th planet bjj in Santa Fe years back and tait fletcher was a coach there. He was super cool, not really a celebrity but he's been in a bunch of stuff (breaking bad, John wick).

There's a local pornstar here in town that is friends with one of my friends she seems pretty cool, dosent talk much. My friend banged her and he said that she wouldn't do most of the stuff she does in her videos...he was disappointed.

Trained with some pro Muay Thai guys but they are only famous in a very small circle of kickboxing nerds.
 
A guy I used to work security back in the day met Too $hort in Atlanta. He had a gang of hos with him. Stepped into a liquor store, pants sagging, and bought lots of alcohol. Dude said he was cool, and invited him to the party after he got off work.
 
I briefly met Suger Ray Leonard and Ken Shamrock but nothing special happened or was said. Seen some other celebrities and UFC fighters from a distance couple times but pretty much all boring stories tho.
 
Ever heard of a guy called Tyson Fury, I met him a couple months ago. He's the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing to tell about the encounter, he didn't rub his tits in my face, was just a nice guy.
 
Being in and out of radio most of my life, and in the local MMA scene for the past decade I have met a plethora of celebs.

Most of them are just like you and me. (Except the rock star ones... They are like you and me but much dirtier)
Some are cool and down to earth, some are dumb as boxes of rocks, some are full of themselves - but they are all still just 'people' at the end of the day.
 
I met R. Lee Ermey and Evander Holyfield at Atlanta Motor Speedway. It was a two day event and they were there for a charity event. Didn't spend any personal time with them, but they were both cool and down to earth while they interacted with the group.

Evander's head was huge.



I have met R. Lee Emery as well, at a Toys for Tots fundraiser. He was a cool guy, took a lot of time to interact with people.
 
Also, almost forgot about Pauly Shore, if he is even considered a celebrity anymore. Didn't really meet per say, saw him on a beach, he was falling over wasted and had a couple of people with him that were falling over wasted as well. He took the time to take pictures with people and what not, so he at least isn't an asshole when he is falling over drunk.
 
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