Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard Fleeshman

Celebrity is supposed to work like a magic trick: you recognize the face, your brain supplies the mythology, and suddenly an ordinary room gains aura. Richard Fleeshman’s anecdote punctures that machinery in the most backstage way possible. The make-up chair is a great equalizer; everyone’s half-finished, mid-transformation, reduced to small talk and stray hairpins. His “I’ve never really been star struck” reads less like bragging than like a quiet professional credential: in an industry built on status, he’s claiming composure as a kind of craft.

The comedy lands on the blocked sightline. He’s literally unable to “look round,” which becomes a metaphor for how fame depends on framing. Without the camera’s angle - without the reveal - Bryan Adams is just “a guy.” The punchline isn’t that he met a legend; it’s that he didn’t know it. That reversal flatters both men: Adams becomes approachable, Fleeshman becomes un-fazed, and the audience gets permission to treat celebrity as a costume that can slip off between segments.

There’s also a subtle nod to the hierarchy of show business. Fleeshman, an actor from a younger generation, encounters a musician whose fame was minted in a different era of mass monoculture. The surprise isn’t worship so much as time travel: a reminder that “icon” is often context-dependent, and that proximity to fame can make it feel less like lightning and more like fluorescent studio lighting.