# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/21 "2016-08-05T14:01:12Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > 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? Yeah, me too. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/22 "2016-08-05T14:33:57Z")
I’ve been told I _sound_ like John Lithgow. I’ve heard my recorded voice and I don’t hear any resemblance at all. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/23 "2016-08-05T14:39:15Z")
Somebody told me I look like Drew Carey once. Considering the fact that I’m at least 10 inches taller than him and 50 pounds heavier, I’m pretty sure they were just pulling my leg. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/24 "2016-08-05T14:50:40Z")
When I was a little girl people said I looked like Mary Tyler Moore (I did) As a teen, Pat Benetar(probably my big horse teeth) In my 20s and 30s I got Rosie Perez (fuck off) and . . .Eartha Kitt!(grrrrrrr!) About a year ago someone told me I look like a cross between Jennifer Lopez and Faye Dunaway (I wish) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/25 "2016-08-05T15:30:02Z")
Robert Carlyle (I can’t see it) Gary Oldman (I can’t see it) Viggo Mortensen (I can’t see it) John Simm (there are photos of Simm that cause me to double-take – when I saw him in Human Traffic there were some scenes that had me uncomfortably feeling “Hey, I don’t remember doing that!” I’ve almost been tempted to ask my father if he might have been playing around in the late 60s.) ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/26 "2016-08-05T15:45:06Z")
In my 20s and 30s I got told I looked like both Robin Williams and Bill Murray quite a lot. The other week I was at the bagel store with my kid and the girl behind the counter told me I look like Harry Truman 😃 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/27 "2016-08-05T16:08:16Z")
A Hutterite woman in a small town bar looked at me, smiled and said, “Jesus?” back when I was under 33 and had long hair and a beard. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/28 "2016-08-05T16:55:10Z")
Once. Rick Moranis. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/29 "2016-08-05T18:00:24Z")
I’ve been told on several occasions, by a variety of strangers, friends and acquaintances, that I remind them of Will Ferrell. My wife doesn’t see it, and neither do I. But I’ve gotten it so much, there must be something to it. Back in my college years, when I had long hair, the comments alternated between one of the [Hanson](http://www.aux.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Hanson.jpg)brothers and the [drummer](http://www.theweeklings.com/wp-content/uploads/hootie-hr.jpg)from Hootie and the Blowfish (the dude next to Hootie). ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/30 "2016-08-05T18:08:27Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > A Hutterite woman in a small town bar looked at me, smiled and said, “Jesus?” back when I was under 33 and had long hair and a beard. I got the Jesus thing a couple of times. It was just the long hair and the beard unless there are images of Jesus eating better and working out that I don’t know about. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/31 "2016-08-05T20:11:21Z")
It is important for this setup for you to know that I am unmistakably female. Of a certain generous size. A man approached me once as I was chatting with a friend while waiting for the light and asked me if I was in New York for the opening of Hairspray. I told him no. He said “I’m sorry, you look just like the star of the movie.” We both kind of stared at him for a moment, and I asked, somewhat incredulously, “John Travolta or Divine?” Fortunately, he suddenly sensed that his presence was unwelcome and slunk away. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/32 "2016-08-05T20:19:08Z")
I was once told by a girl I met in a bar that I look like Andy Garcia’s character in _Goodfellas._ There isn’t a single thing about that statement that makes sense, but she was hot, so I ran with it. ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/33 "2016-08-05T20:30:50Z")
In my 30’s and early 40’s I got Meredith Baxter-Birney (and I did). Not so much anymore. Now I get “you and your brother look like you could be twins” and it’s true. He is the male version of me … we’re identical. No, my brother is not famous. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/34 "2016-08-05T21:23:16Z")
In my early adolescence, my nose was a bit too big for my face. One kid on the school bus insisted that I looked like Lou Ferrigno. Just my face. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/35 "2016-08-06T03:00:37Z")
I had a picture of Ulrike Meinhof lying around my house and my father mistook it for a picture of me. She was a terrorist but might have been close to being a celebrity in her time. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/36 "2016-08-06T07:22:41Z")
Yes, but not too often, and seldom if ever the same celeb by more than one person. Three I recall are “the guy from Dexy’s Midnight Runners” (Kevin Rowland), “Mr. Bean” (Rowan Atkinson) and “Hulk from the Avengers” (SSOO thinks Mark Ruffalo the most likely one; I couldn’t guess). ---
**Author:** ![grammarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@grammarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grammarian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/37 "2016-08-06T08:54:45Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > 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. \*20s ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/38 "2016-08-06T16:16:49Z")
> [@grammarian](#): > > \*20s Stop doing this. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/39 "2016-08-06T22:30:28Z")
I was stopped outside the Fox theater in San Diego in 1982 and asked if I was Ralph nader. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785/40 "2016-08-07T00:04:37Z")
When I was younger, and had more hair, I would hear either Peter Tork (of the Monkees) or Larry Bird (who’s also 11 inches taller than me). Now that I have less hair, I hear Colin Mochrie (of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) a lot, including the woman at a restaurant, a couple of years ago, who was quite certain that I was Mr. Mochrie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-told-you-look-like-a-celebrity/761785.md?page=3)