In middle school I was nicknamed “Elton John”.
I was recently told I look like Jason Bateman.
(Sorry, no pics from middle school or Bateman-like pics–the latter is dependent on my very recent haircut.)
You kinda do. But I’d actually put you closer to Harvey Korman or that other guy whose name and whose credits completely escape me but who looks an awful lot like you (and Harvey).
Hmm…beg to differ, but you do. It’s the eyes, mouth and chin, and of course the silver hair (but you have a different nose, forehead and cheekbones). The second picture (the one in the white shirt, no jacket) captures the right angle best. And looking at that last two pictures, I suspect your hands and movement as well, which a lot of people unconsciously pick up on, but can’t tell you that’s what they’re noticing.
I always think it’s interesting to note which features people look to first when recognizing a person. For me, it’s mouths and eyes, for my husband, it’s hair and cheekbones. So we almost NEVER agree on whether someone looks like someone else. He’d say you don’t look much like Martin.
Twice, a good ten years apart, I’ve been told I look like Tom Cruise. Other than those two women, nobody thinks I resemble the man in even slightly.
I was sometimes compared to Jack Cassidy jack
especially when he was sporting a van dyke and I wore a beard.
This was taken in the mid 70’s, after I shaved the beard, i’m on the left w/ the love of my life: me
I think you look better than Tom Cruise!
Mindfield much better looking than Steve Martin too.
Actually everyone here looks great. Anastasaeon, your adorable!
Anybody famous? No. But in my 20’s and 30’s, people often thought I was someone they knew. Must have had a generic kind of face. Is that good or bad?
Ohh…are you actually a friar then? I thought it was just a screenname. Cool.
As for me, a familiy friend once said I look kinda like this guy but nah – hardly. The mother of a friend said I “reminded her” of Jimmy Stewart, but I think she was talking more about personality than looks (or so I hope!).
I get a lot of “Richard Dreyfus” sightings. The best one came when I recognized “the look” on a girl’s face in the elevator and said, before she said a word, “No, I’m not Richard Dreyfus.”
Shut her up good and proper.
Unfortunately, no. At least, not one that shows me as I am now (I’ve only had the beard for a couple of years), and that can be uploaded somewhere.
Now that I think of it, outside of a couple of out-of-focus print snapshots of my wife and I at some local tourist attraction, there aren’t any recent photos of me (digital or otherwise) that I know of. Perhaps I should put a digital camera on the Christmas list.
Back in the early ‘70’s a bunch of people kept saying I looked just like Jack Nicholson. Once several college classmates insisted “We saw you in the movies last night. He even acted like you do”. (See the flick Five Easy Pieces) Yeah, I was a smartass in those days, just like Jack was in that movie.
The most extreme case was one Christmas Eve in Miami when I was in a Toys ‘R’ Us store getting a last minute kid’s present. Some guy in the checkout line with me went bonkers, ranting about how I was his wife’s favorite actor, would I sign an autograph for her, on and on. I told him maybe five freakin’ times I wasn’t Jack, but he kept on with the “Please, you can make her Christmas” stuff, so I finally signed Jack’s name for him, said merry christmas, and got outta there.
Now, not so much. I’ve aged a helluva lot better that Jack Nicholson has.
Not exactly like him, but I sure see it!
The earlier pics reminded me of Siobhan Fallon from SNL a few years ago.
The newer pics remind me of, also from SNL, Julia Sweeney.
The “fatter” :rolleyes: pic… Janeane Garofalo.
All of these are good things!
It is just a screenname. That’s a picture of me in costume for a local low-budget movie I helped produce.
The story about the screenname- when I got onto the Net nine years ago, there was a thriving chat room site, now defunct, called The Park. I was the resident Christian (often referred to myself as the “pet Christian”) in The Wiccan/Pagan Room. My first screenname there was “Dale Cooper” (Kyle MacLachlan’s TWIN PEAKS character), then it became FriarDale as a parody of Friar Tuck, a C’tian who also hung with a suspiciously Pagan bunch 
, and almost everywhere else on the Net- FriarTed, Ted being connected to my real first name.
You know, Jack would really have said “Merry F------ Christmas”.
Since people wanted pics, I think this pic from a dope fest makes me looks most like Mena Suvari. I don’t have any good pics of myself when I was younger online for the Emma Watson comparison, but if you look through my photobucket, I’m sure you’ll see the resemblence.
Back when I had mod-rocker hair, I got Malcolm McDowell circa Clockwork Orange a LOT. I still get it once and awhile.
I had a friend a year or two back that insisted I was the spitting image of Julianne Moore .
I’m not.
Aside from that, my mom ran across a Paul Mitchell add in a magazine 10 years ago and insisted that the girl in the ad could’ve been my twin. I did see a tiny resemblance, but I have no idea who she was and I haven’t seen her since.
Congratulations - you are the first person ever on the SDMB who looks pretty much like I thought he would.
Regards,
Shodan
You have the same twinkle in your eyes as he does, and a similar jawline. Also, you have lovely hair.
I look like nobody but myself and perhaps my mom.
