21 Celebrities That Are Actually Nice in Real Life

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Met Jason Momoa at a Q&A for his film, Road to Paloma. I made a drawing for him and when he got offstage my wife got his attention so I could talk to him. Firstly, he’s huge: 6’5″, 250 lbs. of muscle – I’m 5’7″ so I had to crane my neck to talk to him. Secondly, he had a beer onstage during the Q&A so he smelled manly as hell. Anyway, I asked him if he would adopt me as his younger brother and he laughed, then gave him the drawing to sweeten the pot. He looked at the drawing and said “awesome, fucking awesome”, then pulled me in for a photo. His hand enveloped my shoulder. I tried to put my arm around him but he’s so broad, it was like trying to grab a wall. Anyway, I got my photo and he made my year.

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In NYC I would take the bus home from school everyday. The Fisher King was filming outside Hunter College High School. There was pretty significant traffic & the bus was crawling through as it approached the school & several friends & I were watching out the windows as we got close. They were filming at the exterior of the castle right on the side of the street which was causing the heavy traffic. As we got to the “set” we basically stopped dead in front of Robin Williams. He turned & noticed all these gawking people on the bus & launched into a bunch of crowd work, talking to us as we leaned out the windows, cracking jokes, riffing on his homeless attire for the movie, etc. I was always impressed by his generous nature & self awareness.

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Hulk Hogan bitched about video game prices at target with my dad for a couple minutes.

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I met Neil Degrasse Tyson in New Zealand a few weeks ago. I also saw his wife and son, and talked with him for a few minutes about the recent earthquakes (I’m a geologist), he asked me a few questions and was pretty interested in actually talking. I was very pleasantly surprised.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.