Jim Parsons was all smiles in Hollywood yesterday at the official ceremony to unveil his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Though the 41-year-old has also starred in movies and on Broadway, it's his work as Sheldon Cooper on the hugely successful CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory that qualified him for the honor.

In a recent interview with Variety, Parsons said he once visited the Walk of Fame as a teenage tourist from Houston, but he never imagined his name would be among it. "I already enjoyed acting, [but] there was not some sort of sense of 'maybe one day,'" he said. "It did not even enter my mind."

He added: "It is a funny place to honor anyone. ‘We will put your name right on the ground.’ And if there is gum there? Come on, it is the ground!"

Speaking on his next big role as "the Almighty" in a one-man play called An Act of God, Parsons said:

"God has some stuff he would like to say and he has decided a venue on Broadway is the way he would like to do it. And since his essence defies all comprehension by humans, one of his choices is to take over a body and speak through them and the conceit is he has picked me."

“It could easily be Angela Lansbury,” he said. “It could easily be Denzel Washington. I find this process delightful.”

Check out more photos from the event below: