Cheech Marin Quotes

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted.

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.

My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

Having casual conversations with the likes of Lena Dunham and Kim Kardashian makes me weak in the knees. I have so much respect and admiration for Lena that it doesn't matter how many times I talk to her - I get starstruck.

I don't really get star struck.

You never see yourself as that interesting. You're like, 'Really? Me? You want a picture with me? I'm boring!' But if I saw somebody like Simon Pegg or Johnny Depp, or one of my heroes, I'd get totally starstruck and want to go ask them for a picture.

We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and are known for living their lives in front of the world. How strange is that? The appeal makes sense to me - it's like 'The Truman Show,' getting a chance to peak into someone's bedroom or see the way someone fights with their husband.

I have a thing that I do when I meet famous people where I try to play it really cool. Sometimes I pretend like I don't know them.I was at this party and James Bond was there. Daniel Craig, but I think he goes by James Bond. Anyway, my wife is in love with him. He was in a tuxedo looking all James Bondish.

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?

Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.

I fangirl when I see someone famous wish me congratulations.