# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/161 "2014-08-10T01:46:38Z")
> [@KaylaLynn](#): > > I don’t know, but you were super-hot in '92! 😉 Okay, this is a year late, but thank you! ---
**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 10, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/162 "2014-08-10T06:02:03Z")
Chuck Norris. This was first noticed by two Syrian border guards while walking across the border from Kilis, Turkey (near Gaziantep) to Azaz, Syria (near Aleppo). ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/163 "2014-08-10T06:42:42Z")
Bette Midler. I can see it, too. My face is more angular, but I have a similar nose, mouth/smile, and eye shape, and curly red hair. The first photo on [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Midler) page is a good likeness. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/164 "2014-08-10T06:46:53Z")
John Goodman. I got it more when he was alive but I still get it from time to time ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/165 "2014-08-10T07:50:54Z")
John Goodman is dead? ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/166 "2014-08-10T08:27:14Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > John Goodman is dead? I had no idea. If only there was some way to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/167 "2014-08-10T08:41:08Z")
When I was in my 30s, people said I looked like Harrison Ford when I took my glasses off. I never could, heh, see it myself, but enough people said it that it must have been true. But as he and I grew older, no one says that anymore. My father looked nothing like Jack Lemmon until he was in his 60s. Then my old father and an old Jack Lemmon looked a lot alike. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/168 "2014-08-10T09:20:50Z")
Simon Pegg and once some school kids said I looked like Steve Urkel. ---
**Author:** ![Tremblay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e56c9b/32.png) [@Tremblay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tremblay)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/169 "2014-08-11T13:34:52Z")
A brunette Amanda Seyfried. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/170 "2014-08-11T14:12:02Z")
After years of being told that I looked exactly like some guy people knew\*, I finally tracked one down. as I’ve related before, I look like political cartoonist (once of the Boston Globe) Paul Szep. So much so that my co-workers once cut out one of those “Dewar’s Profiles” ads with Szep in it, tore off the name, and stuck it on my office door. People came by for weeks asking why Dewar’s did a page about me. Here’s the ad: > **[1975 Dewar's White Label Scotch Ad - Paul Szep-DE0692](https://www.vintagepaperads.com/1975-Dewars-White-Label-Scotch-Ad--Paul-Szep_p_91747.html)** > > 1975 Dewar's White Label Scotch Ad - Paul Szep-This is a 1975 ad for a Dewar's White Label Scotch! The size of the ad is approximately 8.5x11inches. T He’s older now, but the similarity’s still there: [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-szep/26/302/130](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-szep/26/302/130) He has a larger chin than I do, though. \*These are different people, so they’re referring to different guys who look like me. Evidently there’s an army of CalMeacham lookalikes out there. And they’re mostly not famous. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/171 "2014-08-11T14:17:00Z")
This thread needs a lot more pics. I was told I looked like an actor on Chicago Hope. I think they meant this guy. [Side by side with me](http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh146/madillma/lookaliketgibson.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/172 "2014-08-11T14:27:28Z")
Several friends used to suggest that I was a close match to tennis pro John McEnroe. I had the bushy hair and I did play tennis in high school but the similarity ends there. We also share an alma mater and while I have the more impressive CV, I think he has the edge in celebrity status and gross income. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/173 "2014-08-11T14:36:15Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Maybe, but within 10 seconds of you posting that every guy on the Board was wishing that you were twisting his ear and asking, “Are You _Psycho_? Do you Not have a _Soul_?” > > Kudos to you, M’am. To look that great… it must be nice 24-7. Someday, if we are lucky, maybe you would write about what its like walking on that side of the street. She has a picture in the picture thread. Don’t tell anyone. Hard to tell from just a couple of static pictures but I don’t see a resemblance to either. But of course she is very attractive. > [@JohnClay](#): > > Simon Pegg and once some school kids said I looked like Steve Urkel. They certainly have a geek aura but that is an oddly wide range in looks. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/174 "2014-08-11T16:01:44Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I had a friend who said I reminded him of Jack Nicholson. But maybe behavior more than looks. When I was in my 20’s, I was often told that I reminded people of Jack Nicholson, or John Cleese, or Steve Martin. Not sure if it was looks or behavior but either way I never saw it myself. Nowadays people just tell me I look like my dad. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/175 "2014-08-11T17:45:11Z")
When I was a teenager, a lot of people called me Gilligan despite my protests. Too many people for me to think it was a fluke. In my early fifties I grew my hair out and everyone started calling me ‘the Dude.’ Never was a fan of Jeff Bridges so that wasn’t exactly the look I was going for either. These days nobody says anything about my looks, which probably isn’t a good sign. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/176 "2014-08-11T17:57:55Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > This thread needs a lot more pics. Me and Ed Helms: [![](https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/JasonAndAlexisBucket/1798bbb_zps4d05294b.jpg) ](https://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/JasonAndAlexisBucket/1798bbb_zps4d05294b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/177 "2014-08-11T18:26:25Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Me and Ed Helms: > > [http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/JasonAndAlexisBucket/1798bbb\_zps4d05294b.jpg](http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/JasonAndAlexisBucket/1798bbb_zps4d05294b.jpg) Hey that’s a good one! Definitely some resemblance there. Do you ever say, “A root-doot-doot-da-doo” ? ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/178 "2014-08-11T23:10:31Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > But the other one is really odd since he was black and I am not. That was the conductor James Anderson DePriest. He was assistant conductor in DC, then principal in Quebec City, then principal for the Oregon Symphony (based in Portland, I think). He died earlier this year. People always seem to think that someone black can’t have a resemblance to someone white. Or Asian, whatever. Kind of ridiculous. Of course there can be plenty of points of similarity even if skin color is different. I have an acquaintance, someone I see a couple of times a year in the course of volunteer work, who is an absolute dead ringer for Scarlett Johanson (am I spelling that right?). Except that she’s a black woman. But the resemblance is so strong as to be shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/179 "2014-08-12T05:26:34Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I had no idea. If only there was some way to find out. Oops - forgot the smiley! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/180 "2014-08-12T06:18:19Z")
I have not been told I look like any celeb in about five years! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912.md?page=10)