roopower - // ... but I can see his point about autographs. It must be really galling going for a walk or to the shop and having a piece of paper thrust under your nose - a bit different at a stage door or the like. //
I think the vast majority of famous people accept that being stopped in public, more for a selfie these days, is just part of being famous, and they deal with it with grace and patience.
Famous people I have interviewed have almost all had that approach, the only real 'no no' is approaching a famous person when they are eating, that is generally seen as bad manners.
John Inman said that someone shouted 'I'm free!!' at him in the street almost every day of his life, and he accepted it as being part of being famous, and said he would prefer that to simply being ignored.