I met John Cleese at an airport when I was 12.

I met John Cleese at an airport when I was 12. My brother, my dad and I walked up to him and his wife. We all knew him from Monty Python but he thought we knew him as Nearly Headless Nick from Harry Potter. My dad told him that we we're going to buy the entire Monty Python DVD boxed set. He told us that we should use the $120 it would cost to buy ice cream instead, as that would be "a lot of ice cream". He asked for our address and we ended up getting a signed picture of him in the mail. His wife was also very nice and recommended I read Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series (The Golden Compass, etc.) since I told her I like to read.