# Actors that just rub you the wrong way **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/101 "2003-08-31T08:28:02Z")
Thank you for this thread… otherwise my head would have popped like a pimple. I was flipping through channels on a weekend morning and I came across an early re-run of ‘90210’. Pretty much anyone from that cast can qualify for this thread, but as far as the person who makes me ill watching her “acting ability” is **Shannen Doherty**. She is horrible… I don’t think she even puts any effort into acting… and I definitely don’t think she got the job for being attractive, either. Anyhoo, I’ll also add my vote for pretty much anyone of those Scientologist loonies. = ) ---
**Author:** ![rybaczewski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@rybaczewski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rybaczewski)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/102 "2006-04-07T17:19:37Z")
Here is one person I am surprised no one has mentioned yet… **Paris Hilton** :dubious: I mean come on already. Why anyone would cast here in anything is a mystery to me. Another that just rubs me wrong is **Angelina Jolie** She’s creepy and talentless Same goes for **Ben Stiller**. My god, can someone please explain Zoolander to me! 😕 I also despise all the Scientologists (with a special hatred reserved for **Tom Cruise** ) Just shut up already. I can’t wait until they all get beamed up by the mothership. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/103 "2006-04-07T20:22:31Z")
It’s interesting to see the names on this zombie thread. To think people hated tom Cruise 2 1/2 years ago! ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/104 "2006-04-08T01:47:28Z")
Gary Sinise… don’t know why. Fran Drescher. Just eww. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/105 "2006-04-08T02:10:33Z")
Nicholas Cage and Julia Roberts. Glad to see it’s not just me! ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/106 "2006-04-08T02:35:47Z")
Rene Zellweger (Her little coy act pisses me off.) Jessica Simpson, aka horseface (Though clearly, she’s not an actress.) Jason Alexander (Please shut up.) David Spade (He couldn’t be less funny.) Roseanna Arquette (Stuck-up snob with no talent.) Queen Latifa (I liked her in Bringing Down the House, but those pizza commercials make me want to ram a pencil through my brain. Ditto for CoverGirl.) Martin Lawrence (Not one redeemable quality as an actor, comedian or human being.) Tom Cruise (I haven’t looked at him the same way since he freaked out on “Today.”) Ashton Kutcher (Why is he on television?) Eric Roberts (He looks like an android.) Keanu Reeves (I can’t listen to the man talk. He should have stuck with modeling.) ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/107 "2006-04-08T02:35:52Z")
Reading this thread was fun little game for me. I had my choice in my mind when I read the title and as I read the posts I kept thinking “Somebody is going to steal my answer”. But nobody did (as far as I saw). Each post for 3 pages I thought the same thing. But nothing. So here is hands-down the most annoying person to even call themselves an actress: Rosie Perez ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/108 "2006-04-08T03:39:43Z")
Am I the first to mention Uma Thurman? I don’t find her attractive but I do find her annoying. She’s too goddamn skinny, her lips are too thin and she has a weird nose. There’s something about her acting I can’t put into words that just bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/109 "2006-04-08T05:16:26Z")
Halle Berry, for the **X-Men** movies alone. Tom Cruise, for obvious reasons. Angelina Jolie, for being both disgustingly self-satisfied _and_ a homewrecking whore. A twofer. Jim Carey. I just want to pull his rubbery face off. ---
**Author:** ![Shasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Shasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shasta)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/110 "2006-04-08T10:33:39Z")
Jim Carrey (he just makes me ill) Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen…always ALWAYS annoying!!! Jessica Simpson, oh puleez ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/111 "2006-04-08T10:36:39Z")
Jim Carrey. Yeah. He can be _that_ annoying. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/112 "2006-04-08T11:10:05Z")
On my way to work, so can’t read the whole thread, For me- Nicole Kidman. I don’t care if she’s beautiful. She strikes me as wooden and one note. Meg Ryan–every character she plays is Sally. I love Sally, but … George Clooney–he went on the Carson show (as in Johnny-or was it Leno, memory fails) and was quite rude about his aunt, Rosemary–who helped him get started in the business. I never liked him after that. Pretty full of himself, that one. Tom Cruise–his early movies were all variations on the young maverick etc, but after his nutso episodes on Oprah etc–blech. Hillary Swank–get the teeth fixed, please. And stop kissing your brother on the mouth. Thank you. The Olsen twins do not qualify as actors to my mind, so never mind about them. And Halle Berry needs to get over herself. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/113 "2006-04-08T14:41:58Z")
Another vote for Tom Cruise here. Aside from the culty stuff, I hate him because he’s found a safe zone for his acting performances, and he won’t venture out of it anymore. He used to take chances and play parts that were outside his comfort zone, but no more! The only character he plays anymore is Tom Cruise. Also, his scientology beliefs creep me out to no end. There is something very sinister about that religion, and it shows in his empty, evil, hollow eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/114 "2006-04-08T15:25:33Z")
Hmm. So only one other person besides me ( **RikWriter** ) can’t stand **Catherine Zeta-Jones.** She is beautiful and a fairly convincing actress, but there is something about her: whenever I watch her perform I get feeling in the back of my mind that in real life she is a smug complacent horrid person. And it rubs me the wrong way enough to actually spoil my enjoyment of whatever movie she’s in. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/115 "2006-04-08T15:37:18Z")
> [@rybaczewski](#): > > Here is one person I am surprised no one has mentioned yet… > **Paris Hilton** :dubious: > I mean come on already. Why anyone would cast here in anything is a mystery to me. Probably because this thread is two and a half years old, and she hadn’t been around and as annoying as long then. As for me, I’ll add Jeff Goldblum to the list. I hate the arrogant “I’m just so sexy I know I’ll make you melt” vibe some men try to give off, especially when they really aren’t that attractive to begin with. Also in the arrogant male mode, I’m not fond Bruce Willis, either. I can deal with him when he’s in the mode he was in in “Sixth Sense,” but I found him utterly repulsive in his full “Moonlighting”-smugness mode… ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/116 "2006-04-08T15:41:42Z")
I’ve only seen a couple of her movies but somethinh about Rachel McAdams just bugs the crap out of me. I find her really over-mannered and self-conscious. She’s not a tenth as cute as she thinks she is. In _Redeye_ I was rooting for the bad guy to kill her. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/117 "2006-04-08T18:33:28Z")
> [@Anniee](#): > > 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 Never heard of her. Looked up her picture… never seen her before, either. I’ll have to reserve judgement. My list: **Julia Roberts** (hate her lips, and she’s annoying) **Adam Sandler** (makes me want to eat a barbed wire salad with vinaigrette dressing) **Hugh Grant** (extremely unattractive yet somehow played up as a “hunk”-- he looks like he was born with a birth defect of some sort to me, and he couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper sack) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/118 "2006-04-08T18:48:46Z")
> [@paulberserker](#): > > **tom hanks** i find offensive in everything bar saving private ryan. 2 oscars for nothing more than a 2 bit 80s comedy person was the icing on the cake for me. Did you see _Philadelphia_? He was incredible in that. ---
**Author:** ![mailman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@mailman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mailman)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/119 "2006-04-08T18:52:11Z")
Kevin Spacy. Yup. Kevin Spacy. ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935/120 "2006-04-08T19:08:26Z")
Jennifer Aniston makes me want to put hot pokers in her eyes. That goes for all the Friends cast. Paul Riser Jim Carrey Mike Meyers Tom Cruise Selma Hayek Stephanie Powers Joan Van Ark Dianne Carroll Michael Douglas Jim Belushi Ryan Reynolds [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-just-rub-you-the-wrong-way/197935.md?page=7)