Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like <insert famous name here>?

Believe it or not, I’ve been told I look like both of these guys (Jaleel White and Davis), but they were more like one-offs, so I didn’t mention them.

I also had forgotten about the time a guard was practically following me around the Picasso Museum in Paris, insisting I looked *exactly * like Eddie Murphy.

So, I look like (i) Spike Lee, (ii) Martin Lawrence, (iii) Jaleel White, (iv) Sammy Davis, Jr., *and * (v) Eddie Murphy. I guess I *am * your ubiquitous Everyman. :rolleyes:

Sampiro, I think you *do * look a bit like Peter Ustinov; Dan Ackroyd, not so much.

Mr. AdoptaMom has been mistaken for the taller guy in ZZ Top , but frankly I don’t see the resemblance at all. It’s happened several times over the last 20+ years, so I guess there must be some truth to it, but I think it’s just the beard he cultivates in order to be a convincing Santa Claus.

When I had long hair and was fatter people said I looked like Jack Black.

10 years ago: Clint Black
I also was told I looked like one of those greek statues, because I had natural curly hair that when uncombed formed that ringlet hair romans had.
After being sick: Remember when the Simpsons went to China, and adopted a baby. They painted Homer gold and posed him like Buddha. Take away the gold.

I’ve been told by a few people I look like George Carlin. I have a bit of a resemblance, I suppose, but not enough to justify mistaking me for Carlin, as a few people have. Still, more than a few people have told me that even if I’m not him, I look like him. So…I guess I look like George Carlin.

OK, here’s me. Picture that with hair 3 times as long (as “big,” really, since my hair grows out and not down.)

My dad also looks like Donovan.

I can see it, but I’d go with Joseph Gordon Levitt for you and Elliot Gould as your dad. (I think Ione Skye is Donovan’s daughter but never met him until she was in her 20s.)

Not me, but Desert Wife. I thought (and told her) she had a striking resemblance to Lauren Becall. Not the mouth – hers was not so generous – but from the cheeks up she was a dead ringer.

She scoffed, until one day a stranger stopped us in the store and asked, “Has anyone told you that you look like Lauren Becall in her prime?” I couldn’t stop grinning.

Minor nitpick, it’s Bacall. Wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise but we’re talking about celebrities here. (I hate correcting people!)

Actually, I’ve been told I look like Gordon-Levitt also. My head is wider though. My dad gets told he looks like Al Pacino a lot, but he also has a wider head.

I was considering posting a topic about this a couple days ago! Awesome coincidence.

A few nights ago, my best friend and I were watching “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”, during which she turns and says to me, “You know, you really do look like Uma Thurman.” I’ve been informed that I look like her by several friends (independently of each other), along with a random stranger who was standing by me at a football game once. (Apparently, “Did you know you look like Uma Thurman?” is a good conversation-starter.)

I do admit, we have very similar facial structures, but it always bothers me a bit, because I always used to look at Uma and think, “She looks weird!

I’ve got one of those faces where people think they know me. I must just have a very common looking face, I think. However, when I was a lot younger people did think I looked like Mary Hopkin (whom no one under 50 would ever have heard of).

My mother bore an uncanny resemblance to Lucille Ball, except her hair was brown not red. Every time this was mentioned, Mum would say, "I wish I had her money). If I had a dollar (or a pound when this was being said) for every time she’d made that response, I would be as rich as Lucille Ball.

My sweetie tells me I look like Lt. Dan.

Well she probably got confused and meant poodle not sheep.

The only one lately was on Old Years’ Night. A woman came up and told me I looked “just like that actor… John Malcovitch.”

Yes that short FAT actor John Malcovitch.

James Van Der Beek, and I hate it.

My husband is always saying that I resemble Isabella Rossellini. One of these days, I just know I’m going to find his secret crack stash.

When living in Leeds about six years ago, I was compared to then Leeds United FC player Harry Kewell as well as (ahem) ex-boy-band singer Stephen Gately . I actually look considerably more haggard than either…

A female bar tender once told me I looked like Jim Croce*; she followed by asking which movie star she resembled. She got downright rude when I told her she reminded me of Lassie.

*To my mind, being told I looked like Jim Croce was NOT a compliment.

Your student is sniffing glue. Your colouring is all wrong and you don’t have that mole.

It could be because you’re petite, and you have very fine bone structure in your face.

Until about five years ago, I was very often told I looked like a younger Omar Sharif. Complete strangers would comment on it, and acquaintances would keep reminding me. One group of people I knew routinely called me “Omar” as a nickname.

Then I went grey very quickly, lost a lot of weight (both stress-related, I think), and shaved off my moustache, and I don’t get the comparisons anymore.