I'm torn. My job is to interview famous people. I have only ever asked for an autograph once out of hundreds of people - it was Eric Cantona, and my nephew was a huge fan. I said if the interview was going well, I'd do it because it meant so much to him. It did and Cantona was happy to sign my nephew's picture book of him in his Man U pomp with a lovely personalised message.
But otherwise I don't because I am there as a professional, not a fan, even if I admire the person's work and like their public image. I am there for business, just as they are. I don't expect to be anyone's best friend but I expect politeness. Lots of people don't get that.
Lots of celebrities do expect you ask for autographs and bow and scrape to them. Johnny Depp and Bruce Willis did. Depp did it as kind of a joke but Willis didn't. He was humourless and insisted on being treated as A STAR. Robert De Niro was the same. Yes, they are. However, their shit still stinks the same as mine.
I've never approached a famous person in the street, aside from the things we all do as ordinary people, like standing in a queue and chatting or bumping into each other on a crowded pavement. If they want to get up in the air about that, as some people have done, then that's their problem, not mine.
Neither do I have tons of sympathy with the view that famous people should not be approached. I can see how it can be annoying but it's an occupational hazard - a bit like being a uniformed police officer and being asked the time.
PS Mariah Carey really liked my shoes. I was unsettled because her taste is a bit dodgy. I consoled myself that she probably didn't like them but was trying to be nice 
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