When people physically compare me to a celebrity I generally get compared to Sara Rue or Wynona Judd and, on one memorable occasion, a young Meryl Streep. Personally, I don’t think I look like any of those women. I always find it odd when people compare others to celebrities, but just yesterday I caught myself telling my boyfriend that he looks exactly like a cross between Patrick Stewart and Evan Handler (though I will say he looks a lot more like Patrick Stewart than Evan Handler, but there is a bit of a similarity there so I had to include him in the comparison.)
I figure I can’t be the only one who has heard or said this kind of thing before. Everyone has to hear this kind of thing every now and again, right? Which celebrities have you been most compared to and do you think that the comparisions are at all accurate?
I often get compared to Elton John or Philip Seymour Hoffman (sp?). I find this both baffling and insulting, since I don’t really think either is attractive or even interesting to look at. I think the former comes from “chunky white guy with straight brown hair and glasses,” and the latter from “chunky white guy.” One memorable homeless guy insisted that I really was Elton John, slumming at a San Diego fast food burger joint, incognito. I don’t know if he believed it or if he thought the flattery would get him something.
I get compared to Ben Affleck so often that I can now finish the sentence, “Hey you know you really look like…” before they can remember his name. They get the same look in their eye every time, and I know its coming.
And, NO, I am not as good looking as Ben Affleck. He is a movie star. I’m a regular guy. I look kind of like he did in Chasing Amy, with the goatee, not pumped up, not exquisitely dressed and coiffed.
But still I get it all the time. Most recently while in Vegas. Some yahoos at the other end of the craps table nominated me “Ben Affleck” when calling for me to throw hard eights and the dealers called me “Ben” for the rest of my stay.
I rarely get this sort of thing, but it’s changed over the years when it does happen…
When I was younger, they said I looked a little like Pia Zadora.
Now, they say Renee Zellwegger. Which I can see, around the eyes anyway (small & squinty)
I’m always Renee Zellweger. I heard it the most while Bridget Jones’ Diary was in the theater, so I suppose I look like Renee, but only if she puts on a few pounds. We have the same lips and cheeks, and similar hair.
For years in my “indie rock” days in the local music scene, I’d get called Trent Reznor. I had the long hair and the gothy clothes, and kind of liked the comparison, but it got tiresome after a bit. It did come in handy a few times; I’d go to a club in a city where Nine Inch Nails was playing, and get whisked into the VIP area by the bouncers who thought they had a celebrity on the loose.
Then there was the group of punk rockers who told me many times that I looked like Ben Weasel from Screeching Weasel. Never got that one. And, over the years, the creepier gothy/punk girls who wanted to flirt would tell me I looked like Marilyn Manson; while the Trent thing got tiresome and Ben Weasel was puzzling, being told I looked like Marilyn was frankly insulting.
Got my hair cut and upgraded my clothes over the years, and I stopped getting compared to anyone. Started dating a woman who really couldn’t visualize the old me with long hair and gothy clothes (though she pointed out I still wear a lot of black), and out of curiosity Googled Trent Reznor after we’d had one of these “what celebrity?” chats. Turned out Trent had cut his hair, too, and changed clothes… She was coy about it, waited until I’d come over to her place for a romantic night, then pulled up a picture of him (something like this) and began laughing while calling me Trent.
To a lesser extent of late, I’ve gotten compared to Steve Buscemi (mainly due to my upper lateral incisors being turned like his, though mine resemble fangs more than his), John Cusack (Lord knows why), and the Verizon “Can You Hear Me Now?” guy when I’m in my glasses.
I had a funny conversation with a friend on this subject. I said that I’ve heard I look like Andie MacDowell and she said “Who’s that?” I said the chick from Sex Lies and Videotape and Green Card. My friend said I look like the chick in the Pantene commercials. I said who’s that? My friend said, you know, the actress from Groundhog’s Day. I swatted her with my notebook - That’s Andie MacDowell!
So, there you go. I think I really look like her in this pic
I get the Meryl Streep thing alla time too. I think it’s my small close-set eyes. Recently someone said I look like Glenn Close. That was extremely upsetting.
If it helps I find PSF so ridicuously sexy…and this is coming from someone that people say looks like Belinda Carlisle! I think its just the chubby face and chin dimple.
These days, nobody. But in my early 20s I had longish hair, and folk said I looked like Bob Geldof. Um, dunno about that, and I don’t have any pictures from back then.
Can i say, i believe so few people that post actually look ANYTHING like what they say they get compared to. Especially if they don’t post comparison pics.
My work colleague yesterday told me that I remind him of Edna from “the Incredibles”. I’ve also got Yoko Ono, and weirdly, my husband thinks I look like Natalie Morales
