People are sharing the moments they were complimented by a celebrity – 31 encounters to remember
It started over on Twitter when @jamesjammcmahon shared three times when celebrities had left him with a nice warm feeling.
By the way, yesterday Jessica Chastain said she liked my t-shirt. Chris Martin once said I had a nice nose. Beth Ditto once complimented my sweatpants. What’s the best compliment a celebrity has ever given you?
And people responded to his request in droves. Here’s a whole bunch of our favourites.
1.
Making a bad Sean Connery imitation while he was standing behind me – I turn around to hear him say “I’ve heard worse”
— Simon Wookey (@simon_wookey) September 3, 2019
2.
Dustin Hoffman said after my interview with him that I was an excellent researcher. I genuinely considered putting it on my CV. Robert Downey Jnr called me cutie in an interview but then got bored and walked off while myself and Jude Law bonded over being Tottenham fans 🤣
— Amanda Fennelly (@amandafennelly) September 3, 2019
3.
Samuel L Jackson once told me my English was so good he was convinced I was a spy so I showed him my French passport and he said "yeah sure, how many other passports do you have in your bag?"
it was: pretty dope https://t.co/98NbJJSnJG
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) September 3, 2019
4.
Jesse Eisenberg told me that he liked my shirt and checked the label on it. I said that this would make a good story. He emphatically told me that it wouldn’t.
— Paul Weedon (@Twotafkap) September 3, 2019
5.
Keanu Reeves bumped into me – literally – on Oxford Street in Sydney, apologised, looked down at my feet and said, "You have GREAT toenails." To be fair I was rocking a particularly perfect pedicure at the time. https://t.co/tftS7fm76s
— Hugh Smithson-Wright (@HRWright) September 3, 2019
6.
Elijah Wood signed an autograph for me and then as I walked off called me back to tell me I had great hair.
— Rebecca B (@mepapalazaru) September 3, 2019
I had to talk my friend out of getting drunk tattoos with Elijah Wood at Coachella and she’s still mad at me for it.
— Mollie Paige @ PAX (@MolliePB) September 3, 2019
nope
— Elijah Wood (@elijahwood) September 4, 2019
7.
I did an impression of Jim Bowen to Jim Bowen at a bar, he called it ‘fucking terrible that son’, then came to our table 5 minutes later and said “Only joking! Smashing that! You’re a good un!”, and walked off…
— Scott Knowles (@ScottAKnowles) September 3, 2019
8.
Stephen Fry once said he saw what I meant. I nearly had a teeshirt printed
— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) September 3, 2019
9.
Jeff Goldblum once called me a "clever man" after I made a pun during an interview. https://t.co/TrOwR9MtMA
— Huw Fullerton (@HuwieMcChewie) September 3, 2019
10.
doesn’t really count as I was a baby but Dame Judi Dench called me gorgeous while queuing behind my mum at the shops once.
— Sam Higgins (@sam_higgins) September 3, 2019
11.
Ben Kingsley saw my fedora on a sideboard, stopped in his tracks and asked the room ‘Who owns that hat?’ I said it was mine. He nodded at me: ‘That’s a nice hat’.
— Philly Byrne (@PhilipNByrne) September 4, 2019
12.
Carrie Fisher looked at a drawing I was doing and said “Nice boobs!” https://t.co/q7eNMNwe0Q
— Adam Hughes (@AH_AdamHughes) September 4, 2019
13.
I once told Zac Efron I had a brother named Zac and he asked, “Is he as cool as you?” AND I AM STILL RIDING THAT HIGH.
— Chelsea Wolf (@ChelsWolf) September 3, 2019
14.
David Bowie complimented my Mary Quant green sparkle nail polish so I gave him the bottle and he ended up wearing it when he did Ziggy Stardust at Radio City.
— ditzyblonde1354 (@ditzyblonde1354) September 4, 2019
15.
Sting said, “I like this kid” when I was 13 and in an elevator with the Police in Nashville. Their manager was mean and I said something sarcastic in response.
— Rick Bennett (@djword) September 3, 2019
16.
Helen Mirren told me I was a genius. She wrecked my life.
— Adrian Schiller (@Grumbletwat) September 3, 2019
