# Actors that just rub you the wrong way
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 27, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935 "2003-08-27T07:17:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/1 "2003-08-27T07:17:50Z")
Let’s just put a moratorium on Keanu now, as it’ll save some bandwidth.
1. Billy Zane. This guy’s acting style just bugs the living shit of me. I really can’t explain it. But every time I see him, I want to get violent.
2. Natasha Lyonne. I’d rather be sodomized by a bull elephant seal than have to listen to that voice again.
3. Josh Hartnett. This squinty shit has got to stop. Act, already!
4. Freddie Prinze Jr. Dear God, has anyone made bigger pieces of utter crap than you? To think your dad killed himself because he couldn’t star in mainstream roles as shitty as the ones you’ve been in.
Others?
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### Author:  [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/2 "2003-08-27T08:09:06Z")
Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey.
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### Author:  [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/3 "2003-08-27T09:49:06Z")
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Will Farrell.
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### Author:  [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/4 "2003-08-27T10:43:38Z")
Lots of them but I’ll try to keep it brief:
Danny DeVito - No believability in any character he plays since the mid-80s.
Jason Biggs - That face looks like it escaped from one of those black velvet sad-eyed puppy dog paintings.
Chris Tucker - a funny voice and attitude, that’s all. Nothing he says is funny beyond beyond that. I read a profile of him in the NY Times magazine that was positive but to me showed how shallow his abilities are and that he plays it more middle of the road than Will Smith but tries to act like he doesn’t.
Steve Martin - This goes beyond just his acting, but IMO probably the most overrated comedian of the past several decades. I hate his high brow stuff and I loathe his low brow material, it all seems too damn obvious to me. I can see a movie of his read one of his “humorous essays” and feel like I’m ahead of any joke he is setting up, and it’s not that kind of humor born of anticipation or riding the pauses like Jack Benny. _Bowfinger_ had it’s moments, but most of them belonged to Eddie Murphy.
Spencer Tracy - Always came across as smug and arrogant to me. His dialogue in movies seems more like he is lecturing the other characters rather than interacting with them, even when it doesn’t fit the scene.
Gary Cooper - Yes a big star, but a lousy actor with no ability at accents and more wooden than an old growth forest.
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### Author:  [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/5 "2003-08-27T10:53:02Z")
Lisa Kudrow.
Don’t know why. She’s just so… icky.
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### Author:  [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/6 "2003-08-27T11:15:35Z")
Melanie Griffith (goofy and stupid will not win you any Oscars)
James Spader (seems dehydrated - needs to drink more water and stop licking his lips)
Barbara Bach (sleepwalks through her roles)
Renee Zellweger (who?) - legend in her own mind
Tom Hanks - unattractive and phony, I feel.
Robin Williams - squeaky little twerp is not an acceptable acting style
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### Author:  [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/7 "2003-08-27T12:36:10Z")
Just a few off the top, but yes, there are so many more.
I can’t watch **Val Kilmer** for the same reason I can’t watch Keanu, they both remind me of the same Ex.
**Vincent D’Onofrio** of Law & Order: CI just gives me the Heeby-Jebbies.
**Jim Carey** ain’t funny, I find him rather pathetic.
**Cher** can’t sing either.
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/8 "2003-08-27T12:40:14Z")
'nother Jim Carrey vote here. Smartarse.
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### Author:  [@Rubicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubicon)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/9 "2003-08-27T12:49:02Z")
My father hates, to the point of anger, the artistic stylings of Shirley MacLaine and Vincent D’Onofrio. The only actor I have a comparably visceral reaction to is Mindy Cohn, an affliction I find easy to manage.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/10 "2003-08-27T12:49:28Z")
**Renee Zellweger** - WTF is up with her cheeks?
**Jennifer Lopez** - Just. Go. Away.
\*\*Ben Affleckp/b] - See above.
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/11 "2003-08-27T13:09:35Z")
Julia Roberts just annoys the poop out of me. I don’t know why but it may be the “Look I grin like a horse” thing.
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/12 "2003-08-27T13:14:00Z")
Also Clint Eastwood. I have no reason. Well other then the fact that he appears to have just the one facial expression, mind you there are several actors like that, none of whom annoy me as much as Clint.
As far as Worst.Actor.Ever could someone please shoot Edward Woodward for me?
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### Author:  [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/13 "2003-08-27T13:14:35Z")
**Laura Dern**
Why oh why didn’t they let that dinosaur eat her?
**Vincent Gallo**
Just _creepy_!
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### Author:  [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/14 "2003-08-27T13:14:47Z")
Eddie Murphy - used to be Funny, now he tries Too Hard, it is almost Forced.
Alec Baldwin - he should have gotten better with Age like wine, but not, I think he could have won an Oscar, but he just isn’t doing any good movies, just politics and badly.
Chris Tucker - I Hate His Voice.
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### Author:  [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/15 "2003-08-27T13:15:21Z")
Male - Dermot Mulroney.
Female - and I hope it doesn’t have to be recent because this is the hands down winner of ALL TIME and I have never met anyone who didn’t agree:
QUINN CUMMINGS
Could ANYONE ever stand that mushmouthed kid?
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### Author:  [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/16 "2003-08-27T13:23:36Z")
**Nicolas Cage** gets on my nerves big time.
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### Author:  [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/17 "2003-08-27T13:34:29Z")
Halle Berry.
As for the people who attacked Jim Carrey - at least he made The Truman Show.
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/18 "2003-08-27T13:39:09Z")
Gilbert Godfried—it’s the face…no, it’s the voice…no, it’s that he’s totally unfunny as an actor (very funny doing comedy and as a guest on talk shows however).
Catherine Zeta-Jones–just seems tremendously self-important.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/19 "2003-08-27T14:01:01Z")
I didn’t think Quinn Cummings was as bad as Kristy McNichol.
I hate Hate HATE Fred Willard. Yeah, I know that’s the character he plays, I know that’s his schtick, etc. etc. I don’t care. I HATE Fred Willard.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/20 "2003-08-27T14:15:39Z")
Probably because she played Peggy Bundy, but I really don’t like [Katey Sagal](http://www.bundyology.com/ks.html). I can’t even watch _Futurama_ knowing that she’s doing one of the voices.
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