# What celeb do people say you look like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912 "2013-07-30T15:51:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Schism](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@Schism](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schism)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/21 "2013-07-30T17:15:54Z")
I’ve heard Bill Paxton and Jim Carrey.(?) My friend went to a Dropkick Murphys show a couple months ago, she says I look like the singer. Maybe it’s the short hair. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/22 "2013-07-30T17:21:24Z")
Nobody has ever said I look like a celebrity. Probably because I wear glasses and have less-than-perfect skin and hair, whereas most female celebrities don’t wear glasses and have perfect skin and hair. I don’t watch a lot of movies or TV, so I don’t even know what many celebrities actually look like. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/23 "2013-07-30T17:33:20Z")
I’ve been told I looked like [Mikhail Baryshnikov](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000864/?ref_=sr_1) (I was in high school at the time and he was in his late 30s, but I still took it as a compliment) and (much later in life, and after I grew a beard) [Richard Karn](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439781/?ref_=sr_1). That’s a pretty wide gamut. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/24 "2013-07-30T17:33:58Z")
Best: [Mary Steenburgen](http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/mary-steenburgen-56th-annual-primetime-emmy-awards-arrivals-dknmeb.jpg) Worst: [Loretta Lynn](http://countrymusichighway.com/images/loretta_1_2.jpg) Although I have a sneaking suspicion that person actually meant to compare me to [Sissy Spacek](http://www.peolpstar.com/images/Sissy-Spacek-09.jpg). Coal Miner’s Daughter was on cable at the time, and I was only about thirteen years old… surely they didn’t really mean Loretta! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/25 "2013-07-30T17:35:49Z")
A short Bruce Willis. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/26 "2013-07-30T17:49:55Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I was repeatedly told I looked like Paul McCartney when I was younger. I haven’t been told that since I hit the big 4-0. I suppose either Paul or I have not aged well. 😃 Funny! Me too. Haven’t heard it in a long time, but I don’t get around like I used to. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/27 "2013-07-30T17:50:51Z")
I look like any of them (when seen from sufficiently far away). More specifically, I have been told on half a dozen non-consecutive occasions by perfect strangers that I resemble some actor that they can’t remember the name of. The most specific any of them has ever been is “not Val Kilmer, but the other guy”. Someday I will find out who the other guy is. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/28 "2013-07-30T17:56:30Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I look like any of them (when seen from sufficiently far away). > > More specifically, I have been told on half a dozen non-consecutive occasions by perfect strangers that I resemble some actor that they can’t remember the name of. The most specific any of them has ever been is “not Val Kilmer, but the other guy”. > > Someday I will find out who the other guy is. Man. All this time I thought you were a broad named Leah. Now I see it’s backwards michael. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/29 "2013-07-30T17:58:11Z")
I look like Prince William, altho I had more hair when I was his age. A buddy of mine has been mistaken for Kevin Neelan, and another friend, who is also a guitar player, looks like Eric Clapton. ---
**Author:** ![spotthegerbil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@spotthegerbil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spotthegerbil)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/30 "2013-07-30T17:58:29Z")
1. Meatloaf (from a passenger on London Underground, near Canary Wharf) 2. Vigo the Carpathian. (From a colleague. Thanks.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/31 "2013-07-30T18:01:34Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Man. All this time I thought you were a broad named Leah. Now I see it’s backwards michael. :smack: Man. All this time I thought you were a broad named Lea. Now I see it’s backwards naffael. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/32 "2013-07-30T18:01:48Z")
Sarah Silverman, particularly [here](http://www.oychicago.com/uploadedImages/Content/Test/Silverman_CAASpeakers_Photo.JPG). One of my boyfriend’s coworkers just mentioned the likeness a couple weeks ago, and everyone else chimed in to agree. Ironically, a couple years ago one of my coworkers commented on the likeness, and everyone agreed then too! Maybe ironic’s the wrong word, though. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/33 "2013-07-30T18:02:51Z")
Adele ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/34 "2013-07-30T18:04:34Z")
Best: Buddha Worst: Elmer Fudd ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/35 "2013-07-30T18:09:42Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > Man. All this time I thought you were a broad named Lea. Now I see it’s backwards naffael. :smack: Hahahahahaha!!! ---
**Author:** ![Craneop2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Craneop2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Craneop2)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/36 "2013-07-30T18:19:30Z")
Uncle Sy from from Duck Dynasty. Especially since I grew a beard. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/37 "2013-07-30T18:20:51Z")
I must have one of those faces because I have been told I look like about a dozen or more different celebrities. I’m not going to categorize them as “best” or “worst” but the spectrum runs all the way from Vin Diesel to Pauly Shore. With a bunch of others in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/38 "2013-07-30T18:31:55Z")
Wayne Knight, unfortunately… ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/39 "2013-07-30T18:43:05Z")
I get told I look like a variety of blue-eyed blonde celebs with big hair and regular features: Meg Ryan, Lindsay Jacobellis, Nancy Travis, Darryl Hannah. And I agree, I do look pretty much like all of them. ETA: the best I ever got was Grace Kelly, but I can see that is untrue and he was a photographer who was trying to make me his muse and get into my pants. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/40 "2013-07-30T18:46:47Z")
I’ve heard Johnny Depp (I’m not that good looking) and Brad Paisley (country singer.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912.md?page=3)