# Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like \? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033 "2007-06-14T19:57:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/21 "2007-06-14T22:04:15Z")
[QUOTE=susan\_foster] I had someone I worked with tell me I looked like an Indian film star. Not sure which one. Guess it was the bone structure, because I am very stereotypically Irish looking, except with brown hair instead of red. Susan [/QUOTE] I get Delta Burke and Kirstie Alley all the time. Jeez I know I’m fat but do you have to point it out? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/22 "2007-06-14T22:33:23Z")
My girlfriend’s has a huge crush on Seth Rogan, and has since he was in Freaks and Geeks. Her brother in Law’s reaction to meeting me for the first time: “Holy crap! You couldn’t be dating anyone who looked more like Seth Rogan without actually dating Seth Rogan.” So apperantly I look like Seth Rogan. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/23 "2007-06-14T22:36:37Z")
A friend of mine looks a LOT like Liam Neeson. In fact, he (Liam, not my friend) was on the cover of a magazine, and I almost bought it to get Tony to autograph it for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/24 "2007-06-14T22:44:49Z")
I’ve got a friend who bears a striking resemblance to a young [Shane](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j8/seaworthy82/shanemac.jpg) [MacGowan](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j8/seaworthy82/smallshanesean.jpg) without the jug ears and the unfortunate teeth. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/25 "2007-06-14T22:47:21Z")
For years, I was told I look like Spike Lee. Yeah, \*exactly \* like him, since we both are black and wear glasses and that’s about it. This wouldn’t be so bad if it was happening while someone was handing me the proceeds from his paycheck. An ID picture I took once (without my glasses) came out looking remarkably like Martin Lawrence. People commenting on the that similarity wasn’t so bad, though, because it \*was \* an uncanny resemblance. I also hated when I lost the ID (my backpack was stolen); it was one of the few pictures I’ve ever taken that I actually liked. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/26 "2007-06-14T22:48:02Z")
[QUOTE=RedRosesForMe] I’ve got a friend who bears a striking resemblance to a young [Shane](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j8/seaworthy82/shanemac.jpg) [MacGowan](http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j8/seaworthy82/smallshanesean.jpg) without the jug ears and the unfortunate teeth. [/QUOTE] I am sorry for your friend. Even without the ears and teeth, shane was never good looking. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/27 "2007-06-14T23:08:02Z")
When I was much younger, I got a lot of people telling me I looked like Jodie Foster. One guy even adamantly insisted that I was Jodie Foster even after I said I wasn’t. I imagine he went home and told everyone he met Jodie Foster, but she wouldn’t admit it. I also used to get Drew Barrymore a lot. In the last fifteen years or so, nobody ever tells me I look like anyone in particular, but I get a lot of, “You look _just_ like somebody I know.” Personally, I think I look like Heather Graham if she were about fifty pounds heavier and had darker hair. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/28 "2007-06-14T23:17:15Z")
My dad is a dead ringer for Johannes Brahms, except his beard is about half a foot shorter. Someone gave him a framed print of [this picture](http://www.carus-verlag.com/images-intern/img/Brahms.jpg) with "Johannes Hume, 1833 - " written on the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/29 "2007-06-14T23:20:30Z")
Younger Robert Redford…When my hair was long… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/30 "2007-06-14T23:23:16Z")
I was once told I looked like Rufus Sewell, which–aside from the black curly hair we have in common–was truly a nutty pronouncement. Then again, it was a dude who said it. I’d never expect a lady to make such a colossal mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/31 "2007-06-14T23:26:32Z")
I’ve been told [Peter Ustinov](http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img1380.jpg) and “a chunky [Kenneth Branagh](http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/226872~Kenneth-Branagh-Posters.jpg) but with lips”. My sister thinks I look like Dan Akroyd which I do not see at all, but then she’s crazy. [Me 3 years ago](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/joncdarby/album/576460762327950922/photo/294928803378200816/8) and[More Recent](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/joncdarby/photo/294928804254371643/0). ---
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/32 "2007-06-14T23:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] I am sorry for your friend. Even without the ears and teeth, shane was never good looking. [/QUOTE] I know I’ll be called crazy for making this confession, but I always thought the young Shane MacGowan was cute in an adorably goofy sort of way (but the teeth are totally unacceptable). You know, like the babies or dogs who are so ugly they’re cute? And as for my friend, he’s quite the charmer, he doesn’t have a problem with the ladies at all. I think the Boston accent helps though. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/33 "2007-06-14T23:33:17Z")
Uh, dudes who are linking to celebrity photos but not your own, _we KNOW what the celebs look like_. If we’re to sit in judgment of you we need _YOUR_ photo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/34 "2007-06-14T23:34:50Z")
Someone who was overdoing the flattery once told me I look like Keanu Reeves. At the time I realized it was meant to be a complement, but took it as an insult because I understood Keanu Reeves to be a bit mentally disjointed. If I was to describe who I think I look like, I think I look a tiny bit like Mr Bean. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/35 "2007-06-14T23:36:30Z")
A friend once got annoyed at me for something or other and started telling me I looked like (1) Charles Gibson and (2) Eddie Munster. Granted, I had my hair cut VERY short at the time. But I’d like to mention at this point that I’m FEMALE. But dammit, she was right. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/36 "2007-06-14T23:41:28Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] For years, I was told I look like Spike Lee. Yeah, \*exactly \* like him, since we both are black and wear glasses and that’s about it. [/QUOTE] Well, it [could have been worse](http://www.thescoopydoop.com/pictures/Yound%20Steve%20Urkel.jpg). I had a friend once who looked EXACTLY and I mean EXACTLY like a young Sammy Davis Jr. (only difference is his hair was natural instead of greased and coiffed). He got furious when EVERYBODY told him, with “Why is it that just because you’re black and short and wear thick glasses and have a moustache and my shade and with this weird mouth twist happening everybody assumes Sammy Davis Jr.!” We told him that it was because Sammy Davis was black and short and wore thick glasses and had a moustache and was his shade and had that weird mouth thing happening. Oh, and he sounded like him too. Except ironically when he sang- then he sounded more like the “Free from infeccttttioooon” guy from _Coming to America_. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/37 "2007-06-14T23:42:50Z")
I’ve been told that I look like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jay Mohr and whoever that guy is who played Zack on _Saved By The Bell_. It’s not Johnny Depp, but I’ll take it. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/38 "2007-06-14T23:45:47Z")
In Japan they are always telling the foreigners that they look like someone famous, usually a very good looking famous person but to the Western eye, the foreigners look nothing like the famous person, there were a lot of Brad Pitts etc - but I eagerly awaited my pronouncement, was it to be Sharon Stone (the younger) etc etc - Well, I lived there for 7 years and only once, yes, that’s once did anyone say I looked like anything and it wasn’t a famous person at all, it was ‘a sheep’!!! Nutty old lady, what would she know anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/39 "2007-06-15T00:13:44Z")
I don’t look like anyone famous, except once when I tried growing a beard and people said I looked like [Jesus](http://www.sunspace.org/swb.jpg). But that was almost 15 years ago. And we don’t know what Jesus looked like anyways. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033/40 "2007-06-15T00:14:37Z")
When I was 16, I was a lifeguard. I ran cross-country, so I was really scrawny. I had long shaggy light brown hair, and I spent a lot of time playing guitar. I heard often from people who were swimming at the water park that I looked exactly like [Beck](http://www.becktabs.com/forum/files/beck_105.jpg)… I don’t see it, but I’ve been told it over and over. Also, when I graduated school, I worked at a garage for a few months. One of the guys there swore I looked like the singer from Rascal Flatts. He was a crazy old guy, though, so that’s fine…heh Brendon Small [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-tell-you-that-you-look-just-like-insert-famous-name-here/408033.md?page=3)