# Do you resemble a celebrity?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 7, 1999, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250 "1999-10-07T05:07:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/1 "1999-10-07T05:07:00Z")
The ‘brush with fame’ thread got me thinking about an experience I had in high school: someone whose name I can’t even dig up now won a golf tournament and got his picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated. All that week, people I didn’t know were coming up to me and asking if it was me, the first one before I’d seen the cover. When I did see the picture, I had to admit the resemblance was pretty profound.
Anyone else ever been mistaken for a celebrity? What famous person do you look like?
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/2 "1999-10-07T05:39:00Z")
Michael Hedges, when he had long hair.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/3 "1999-10-07T05:50:00Z")
I’ve gotten James Woods, more than once.
Minus about 15 years, I assume.
Is that good or bad?
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### Author:  [@pmh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmh)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/4 "1999-10-07T07:40:00Z")
I look a whole lot like Satan. Does that count?
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/5 "1999-10-07T10:39:00Z")
My brother is convinced I look like Alicia Silverstone…
…my brother also smokes WAY too much rope…
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Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought.
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/6 "1999-10-07T12:21:00Z")
My resemblence to Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz is uncanny, especially when he wears a cap (he’s thinning on top and my head is chock full of hair, though I keep it buzzed pretty short). I’ve been stopped on the street more than once for the resemblence.
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/7 "1999-10-07T12:32:00Z")
People often tell me I look like Uma Thurman, but I don’t really see the resemblance.
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### Author:  [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/8 "1999-10-07T12:41:00Z")
My family _swears_ I look just like …Joe Pesci!
Gotcha!
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/9 "1999-10-07T12:59:00Z")
When I wear my hair shorter and curled, more than a few people say I look a lot like Sable. I don’t really see it though, I think it is the boobs and hair (see for yourself on the homepage. I am listed as Kitten [fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) )
When my hair is messy and I need sleep, my daughter thinks I look like Courtney Love. I definitely do not see that one!
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\>^,^\<
KITTEN
Coffee, chocolate, men . . . Some things are just better rich.
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### Author:  [@TheDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheDoll)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/10 "1999-10-07T13:03:00Z")
People have told me that I look like Helen Hunt, Mad About You star. I guess maybe, but she is about 15 years older than I…does that mean I look old?
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### Author:  [@dkgreath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dkgreath)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/11 "1999-10-07T13:10:00Z")
I have been told I look like both Lars Ulrich and Hugh Grant.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/12 "1999-10-07T13:14:00Z")
I’m relying on someone who looks like me becoming famous within the next ten years, so that I can contribute properly to threads like this one.
Until then, I am unique amongst the celebrity set.
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“Waheeey! ‘Duck!’ Get it?”
“Errr… No…”
“Duck! Sounds almost exactly like fu-”
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/13 "1999-10-07T13:48:00Z")
I’ve heard Laura Dern,which I don’t consider a compliment…
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/14 "1999-10-07T14:01:00Z")
Well, whenever people see me, they scream out “Oh dear God!” and then run away. Is that a good thing?
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/15 "1999-10-07T14:08:00Z")
Two people that could not possibly have known each other said that I looked like Christopher Cross of “Ride Like the Wind,” “Sailing,” and most infamously “Think of Laura.” How they got that I don’t know–he’s a MUCH larger person than I.
I think I’m more of a combination of Cross (I do have the same eyes, mouth, and pudgy nose) and a younger Harvey Keitel.
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### Author:  [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/16 "1999-10-07T14:17:00Z")
Once I was a dead ringer for a young John Lennon (pre-hippie).
Today I look something like Tim “Mr. Sarandon” Robbins, though he is older and has a much larger frame.
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“Life ain’t nothin’ but bitches and money” - Eazy E
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### Author:  [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/17 "1999-10-07T14:25:00Z")
I’ve heard Chris Cornell back when he had hair, but i don’t see it myself…
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Yer pal,
Satan
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/18 "1999-10-07T14:25:00Z")
I’ve been told I resemble a bizarre assortment of people:
Cher
Frank Zappa
John Wilkes Booth (!)
Connie Selleca
Kay Kendall
Beatrice Lillie
. . . I guess I’m a shape-shifter.
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### Author:  [@omniscientnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omniscientnot)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/19 "1999-10-07T14:30:00Z")
pmh:
> [@](#):
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> I look a whole lot like Satan. Does that count?
Which one?
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [October 7, 1999, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-resemble-a-celebrity/9250/20 "1999-10-07T14:42:00Z")
> [@](#):
>
> John Wilkes Booth **(!)**
## Is that an exclamation point in parenthesis or are you saying that you look like John Wilkes Booth’s ass?
\>^,^\<
KITTEN
Coffee, chocolate, men . . . Some things are just better rich.
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