# Have you ever been told you look like a celebrity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785 "2016-08-04T23:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hbk4894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/1 "2016-08-04T23:41:51Z")
If so who? ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/2 "2016-08-04T23:59:26Z")
Way back in my 20’s I had one dude tell me I looked like Demi Moore (think St. Elmo’s Fire), and another one about 5 years later compare me to Cheers era Kirstie Alley. They were weirdos. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/3 "2016-08-05T00:55:45Z")
Yup. Chuck Norris. I’ve been told this by lots of people including a couple of Syrian border guards on the crossing from Killis, Turkey in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/4 "2016-08-05T01:47:28Z")
When I was young – Veronica Lake. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/5 "2016-08-05T01:54:08Z")
Yes. Have you? Which one? How did that make you feel? Did you agree with it? If that celebrity were a piece of fruit, which fruit would they be? What is your favorite fruit? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/6 "2016-08-05T02:53:57Z")
A Thai girl working in a shop on Khao San Road once told me I looked like Mark Twain. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/7 "2016-08-05T02:58:37Z")
When I was much younger, I was told I looked like Omar Sharif . . . when he was much younger (and alive). ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/8 "2016-08-05T04:59:21Z")
From about age 15 to 25 I was often told I resembled Don Grady, who played Robbie Douglas on **My Three Sons**. Probably because it was true-- even I could see it. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/9 "2016-08-05T05:22:57Z")
In my 20s I got… [ul] [li]Suzanne Vega[/li][li]Claire Danes (this was “My So Called Life” era)[/li][li]“a young Helen Mirren”[/li][/ul] In my 30s, one or two Dopers I met IRL told me Willow from Buffy In my 40s now and no one ever says I look like anyone ! ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/10 "2016-08-05T05:31:19Z")
In my early twenties…Steve McQueen. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/11 "2016-08-05T05:35:19Z")
[Nate Mendel from the Foo Fighters.](http://www.nme.com/images/2015Lieutenant_Press_020315.jpg) They’re right, I do. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/12 "2016-08-05T06:59:12Z")
I look exactly like that guy who was in that thing. No, not that one, the other one. The guy with the hair and the walk, you know. Yeah, that guy. Well, I used to. Now I look like his Dad. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/13 "2016-08-05T07:25:38Z")
When I was a kid, some classmates told me I looked like the Zodiac Killer. Does he count as a celebrity? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/14 "2016-08-05T07:28:42Z")
“Looked like”, no, but I once had a woman tell me my singing voice sounded exactly like that of [Sam the Sham](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_MpQhgtQ8). ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/15 "2016-08-05T07:50:16Z")
People have told me I look like Matt Damon, I don’t really think I do, more just generic white guy with a buzz haircut. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/16 "2016-08-05T10:56:24Z")
I’ve been told I look somewhat like Lewis Black. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/17 "2016-08-05T11:13:34Z")
People say Jeff Bridges looks like me. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/18 "2016-08-05T11:17:56Z")
Johnny Depp. > [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > … Chuck Norris. I’ve been told this by […] a couple of Syrian border guards on the crossing from Killis, Turkey in 2000. That is super cool. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/19 "2016-08-05T12:38:50Z")
Kenny Rogers, Jerry Garcia, and Santa Clause, depending on my weight at the time. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/20 "2016-08-05T13:48:52Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Kenny Rogers, Jerry Garcia, and Santa Clause, depending on my weight at the time. At times when my weight was out of control (ok, much more out of control) I’d been compared to both Jerry Garcia and Leslie West. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785.md?page=2)