A couple of weeks ago, I walked into a bar in Toronto. The doorman said, “Hey, you look just like George Carlin!”
A couple of days ago, I walked into a bar in Edmonton, Alberta. The doorman said, “Hey, it’s George Carlin!”
And from a barman in a different Edmonton bar: “Anybody ever tell you that you look just like George Carlin?”
Now, the only reason for the resemblance may be my hair (pulled back straight from my forehead and kept in a ponytail) and beard (full, short, neatly trimmed). However, I don’t really see any resemblance in the face, or particularly in the eyes.
But who am I to say? If others think I look like George Carlin; well, maybe I look like George Carlin. Perhaps I should work on a couple of his well-known routines, so I’d have something a little more appropriate to say the next time somebody tells me I look like him. Neither “Huh?” or “What…?” would seem to be as appropriate as “In football, the idea is to penetrate the opponent’s defenses and take the ball into his end zone. In baseball, the idea is to run home…”
Anyway, have you ever been told you look like somebody? Who?
I’ve heard everything, and pretty much none of it true.
I was told I look like Nicole Kidman, Marcia Cross and Shirley Manson. I look like none of these people, but people’s insistence that I look like these people is part of the ARLA Syndrome (All Redheads Look Alike). I’ve noticed this does not seem to happen with other hair colours.
I’ve also been told I look like Uma Thurman, though I mainly heard that when The Avengers was released, which is when she played–surprise!–a redhead.
Within the last 6 months, I’ve had at least 3 people tell me that I look like Mena Suvari. I really don’t see it especially because I’m a brunette with dark eyes. Emma Watson I do see, although we looked more like each other when we both were 14 and now that we both are getting older we look less like each other.
People are nuts. I’ve been compared physically to:
Michael J. Fox (the hair at the time and my height, maybe, but that’s it)
Brad Pitt (Hey, lady, you need your glasses prescription checked)
Some dude off some soap opera (can’t comment, but I’m far from soap material)
I also had some woman at the store near me mistake me for someone she apparently knew. She went so far as to hug me. It didn’t help that she looked like a meth-head, and acted like she was probably on some at the time. Gave me the screaming heebie-jeebies she did.
Sandra Bullock. Rosanna Arquette. Diane Neal. What do these women have in common? High cheekbones and a not so great nose job. And thanks to a car wreck 10 years ago- I also have a not so great nose job.
I get Cher sometimes. Although I’m not sure if its the young cher or older cher. I think it’s because I have long wavy hair that is dark and olive skin. It even got me upgraded to first class on a flight once. My husband wants us to go as Sonny and Cher on Halloween or Cleopatra and the guy with Cleopatra.
