Do you look like or resemble a celebrity?

[neverforget]

Supposedly, I look like Bruce Willis and have had strangers say that too me. How about you?

[Xyzse]

1. I supposedly look like Mark Dacascos

I am nowhere near as burly.

[neverforget]

4. I had to look him up

and then I realized that I recognized him in Hawaii Five-O

[Jenoch]

10. He's muacular anda martial artist,

but at 5'9" I don't think anyone would consider him 'burly'. He's quite lean. He's not much of an actor. He does ok with the quiet, intimidating Asian bad guy.

[Xyzse]

11. I am a few inches shorter

Also leaner and less muscular. I also don't have his chest hair. Hence, burly.

[Jenoch]

12. I always thought burly meant 'heavily built'.

I'm 6'3" and 240# so I guess I would be considered 'burly'.

[Xyzse]

13. True.

Still, I was going by comparison. I, 5'7 who no matter how much push ups or other various chest exercises can't seem to grow a decent sized pecs. I managed to get a four pack, but no, I am just nowhere as muscular as that guy.

So, I am going by "relative" burliness.

[Jenoch]

15. As a youth all I had to do was to eat

to grow muscular. Well, I did lift weights and was a high school football player and I was a wrestler in high school and also in college. The funny thing is, once an atlete stops those strenuous workouts it's easy to put on the pounds. If I dropped 20lbs. I might find that 6 pack.

[Xyzse]

48. If I drop another 5-10 I might too.

I just don't want to any more.
I'm happy with what I have.

[pipi_k]

31. Did you happen to see him

in the 1990s movie "Only The Strong"?

a lot of very cool Capoeira stuff

[In_The_Wind]

2. People used to tell me that I look like Judy Collins.

[magical thyme]

3. someone came up to me in a convenience store once, because they thought I was a soap star

I never watched soaps, but had to watch that one just to see.

Sadly, she was by far the most not beautiful soap star I had *ever* seen. She did have my gigantic forehead, but her nose wasn't as huge as mine. All in all, I could see the resemblance and I fared well in the comparison.

[neverforget]

5. Now when someone says I look like Bruce

I say "Yippee Ki Ya Mother@#$%".

[petronius]

6. Not yet...

But I expect I will eventually.

[neverforget]

7. Lol!

[GReedDiamond]

8. Within the last 6 years I have been approached twice, once in a rock club in Springfield, MO,

...the other time in the Guitar Center in Pasadena, CA, and asked if I was Joe Walsh. (!)

Another time around three years ago, I was at the aquarium in Long Beach, CA, and a guy came up to me and said I looked just like Stephen Stills.

Way before those incidents, somebody actually recognized me from one of the bands I've been in (don't remember which one), but he didn't know my name, just the band I was in.

So much for fame.

[Mr.Bill]

9. I hate to admit it,

but I look like Karl Rove.

[GReedDiamond]

17. I feel for you brutha...

...on the other hand, there could be benefits that come with that...?

Ya know, like making restaurant reservations, or whatever...

One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy:

Hello, Cafe de Turdblossom.

Mr. Bill: "Yeah, hi. I wanna make a reservation for two. I'm the guy who looks like Karl Rove."

Oh oui, I have seen you before. You look just like Karl Rove, your wish is our command.

[pipi_k]

33. Oh nooooo!!!!

You would probably be better off resembling your namesake...

[Jamaal510]

14. Somebody

in high school told me that I look like Carlton from Fresh Prince.

[BainsBane]

16. I've been told I look like Dana Delany

I don't. When I was in Brazil, people were always saying "You look like that American actress that was on TV last week." They never had a name.

My Dad is the spitting image of George Carlin.

[steve2470]

18. Bob Griese ?

I just looked up Bob Griese and I guess he could be my older brother. I was told this once. Also Richard Chamberlain and Christopher Reeves (several times).

[pinboy3niner]

19. Depends. Is 'Death Warmed-Over' a celebrity?

[pablo_marmol]

20. Ha ha ha!

A co-worker once looked straight at me and asked "What ARE you?!"

Translation: "What unfortunate genetic/ethnic DNA collision produced you?!"

[pinboy3niner]

22. Oh, I get my share of VERY flattering comments, too, like...

"You clean up pretty good."

P.S.: Welcome to DU, pablo_marmol!

[denbot]

21. I've been told by a few people I look like Graham Greene

I don't see it.

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[sharp_stick]

38. Maybe they meant this one

The writer



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene

[denbot]

76. Hmmm.. Still not seeing it.

Seems like even more of a stretch.

[IMG][/IMG]

[sharp_stick]

79. You're right that is

a bit more of a stretch, but now I do see Graham Greene the actor. At least at a quick glance.

[mucifer]

23. I kinda look like Rosanne Rosanna Danna.

Gotta be a certain age to know who she was.

[pinboy3niner]

24. Well, mucifer, it just goes to show you, it's always something--if it ain't one thing, it's another

And now let's read a letter from Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey...

[mucifer]

29. Yeah

[Waiting For Everyman]

25. Shirley MacLaine, Veronica Lake.

I used to be told that I looked like Shirley MacLaine, but as she's much older than me, I was never mistaken for her in real time.

Some of the WW2 generation used to say that I looked like Veronica Lake, but I think that had as much to do with my hair, plus stature or posture or personality or whatever-that-whole-thing-is, as just facial resemblance.

My late husband looked a lot like Burt Reynolds only taller and much more muscular. And I have a family member who could be Philip Seymour Hoffman's double.

My ex looks like Robert Redford, only again a lot bigger and more muscular -- he was briefly an Orioles pitcher.

And another ex-SO was a dead ringer for Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown back in their younger days, and is as good a guitar player, and in the same style. Except the SO has remained very skinny in his old age, whereas Kim put on a couple of pounds.

[Recursion]

26. John Belushi

it is what it is.

[whistler162]

32. I am told I look like.....

the Pillsbury Doughboy

[TM99]

27. After chemo, I chose to just stay bald

and love it especially in the desert.

I had always sported a goatee, and people started saying I looked like Walter White in Breaking Bad. My partner and I just watched the full series last October & November while on a road-trip. She totally agrees!

I got some really strange looks when we stopped at Garcia's in Albuquerque, NM on the way home.

[DFW]

28. No celebrity. I did used to scare small children with my appearance

Although once upon a time, before albums with his photo came out, I was asked if I was Leo Kottke.

To a 12 string guitarist, this is the equivalent of a Strat player being asked if he is Eric Clapton, so for me it was quite a compliment.

[pipi_k]

30. A list

of celebrities I've been likened to include (depending on my hair color and age):


Bridgette Bardot

Sally Field

Geena Davis

A young Valerie Perrine

That blonde girl on "Third Rock" (as I heard someone remark to a guy she was with in a store after they had passed me)

Patty Duke (don't even know how I resemble her!)

Lucy in the sky with diamonds (a guy once told me I had kaleidoscope eyes...they are multi-colored)


And Britt Ekland. I would say out of all of those, this is the closest to how I looked back in the 70s.

[Aristus]

34. When I was in my twenties, someone said I looked like Ralph Feinnes.

Now I think I look like Paul Giamatti.

My father bore an eerie resemblance to Bob Crane. People were always coming up to him in restaurants and asking him if he was Bob Crane. The illusion was enhanced because his name was Bob, and people would overhear my mother calling him that.

It even happened a couple of times in the years after Bob Crane was murdered. Weird.

[Major Nikon]

35. I've had celebrities claim they've been told they look like me

[neverforget]

59. Lol! Awesome!

[progressoid]

36. Yeah, that bald guy from those movies about the cars and crime and stuff.

Sorry, I've never actually watched the movies but that's what somebody told me once.

[BarbaRosa]

37. I've had people reference me as Willie Nelson for years.

To the point I just refer to it as being "Willie'd".

Once, when we went Alb. to see Melissa Etheridge at Popejoy Hall, before the show we walked around the lobby and took in all the sights. Well after some of that I had worked up a thirst and stopped by the beer kiosk. The lady serving mentioned that some guy had told her Willie Nelson was in the audience walking around the place.

It's quite fun actually.

[laundry_queen]

39. When I was a little kid

I looked a lot like Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster).

My kids were looking at my teenage pictures the other day and they all were like, "omg mom, you TOTALLY looked like Jennifer Lawrence when you were a teen!"
I personally don't see it though. But all my kids agree on it. I wish I still looked like that

[Brother Buzz]

40. I've often been told I resemble a younger Jack Nicholson

Now I have something to look forward to in my golden years

[Blue Diadem]

41. 15-20 yrs ago, customers would tell me I looked like Brett Butler or Bonnie Raitt.

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I never knew how to take that since I don't resemble either one.

LOL on edit, changed Rhett to Brett. SMH, brain freeze?

[LiberalEsto]

42. Hayley Mills, when I was 12 nt

[mnhtnbb]

43. My high school boyfriend thought I resembled Natalie Wood.

This is a LONG time ago--late 60's.

Frankly, I never saw it.

[bigwillq]

44. I've been told I look like: Matt Lauer

Vin Diesel, Daniel Day Lewis, Dustin Hoffman.

And often people tell me I look Puerto Rican, which I am not nor do I think I look it. Not that it's a bad thing. My boyfriend is PR and when we go to the club together, I think people just assume I am too and they come up and talk Spanish to me. LOL

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

45. Meryl Streep

In my younger days, I would get stopped on the street by autograph seekers. I'd complain,"I got Streeped again!" Now, I would be flattered.

[RobinA]

46. A Client Where I Work

says I'm the mother from Malcolm in the Middle.. Don't know if that's good or bad, I never watched the show, but at least I'm not the mother from Everybody Loves Raymond, who I find to be a horrible shrew.

[HarveyDarkey]

47. George Carlin

When he was alive.

[hamsterjill]

49. Bernadette Peters

I've been told that I look like Bernadette Peters.

I wasn't ever sure if that was a compliment or not...

[JoePhilly]

50. I look like a guy you know from somewhere, or his brother.

Happens to me all the time.

"Hey, I know you?" ... or ... "Hey, do you have a brother named Bob?" Or ... "hey, are you Mary's husband?"

They never actually know me, I don't have a brother, and they never know my wife.

I'm a fairly generic looking white guy. About 6 foot tall, brown hair, somewhere between 30 and 50 (depending on how much sleep I've had).

Go to just about any mall in the United States and you'll pass a guy that looks just like me about every 50 feet or so.

The great part about this is that, just by changing my clothes, I look natural in almost any environment. And people almost immediately think they know me.

[Staph]

51. We must be related!

I'm constantly stopped by folks who say that I look just like their neighbor or second cousin or girlfriend from high school or whatever.

I'm the generic female equivalent -- 5'6", brown hair, vaguely middle-aged (from 35 to 60 depending on who you ask). It makes for interesting conversations, when everyone thinks that they know you!

[JoePhilly]

52. Even when I was a teen, folks would start talking to me as if they

knew me. My mother and sister have always thought it was hilarious. Its happened in front of them so many times. And its never one of them that the person thinks they know, always me.

I was back in Philly visiting my sister this summer, and we went to the store, after 10 minutes, woman walks up and starts talking to me ... sure she knows me ... thought she meet me a week earlier. Which was impossible because I was in NC a week earlier. My sister could not stop laughing. She couldn't believe that it still happens.

The other thing I find, these folks all assume that I hold all the same positions that they hold. Then they start talking like we're old friends. Telling me some of the wildest, often inappropriate, stories and slurs you can imagine. The conversations are very "interesting".

I am, average Joe.

[murielm99]

75. I did that to someone who was a stranger to me.

She laughed and said it happened a lot. She said she just has one of "those faces."

I guess you do, too!

[Jokerman]

53. Simon Cowell, when my hair is short.

That's one of the reasons I started wearing it longer again.

[Callmecrazy]

54. Tom Cruise back in the mid '80's...

During the Top Gun and Days of Thunder years.
Also Ralph Macchio, AKA The Karate Kid. He's a couple years older and I'm a little heavier now.

[RebelOne]

55. I used to when I was young and gorgeous.

This was in the 60s and 70s, when I resembled a famous blonde, sexy star. Not so much any more now that I am 75, but I am still blonde.

[Iggo]

56. Nope, but my step-dad was a dead ringer for John Forsythe back in the day.

Happened all the time, people would say, "Aren't you...?" and he always answered "No. I'm his brother." Cracked me up every time.

[narnian60]

57. I get told I look like Sigourney Weaver and Marlo Thomas.

???? They don't look at all alike to me.

[rrneck]

58. I'm a dead ringer...

[femmocrat]

60. When I was a teenager and in my 20s....

Sophia Loren.

Now I look like Carlo Ponti.

[BainsBane]

63. That's a high compliment

Sophia Loren.

[Initech]

61. I look like Zach Galafinakis without the beard.

"When you look like I do it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck-E-Cheese."

[Generic Brad]

62. I am the spitting image of Jabba the Hut

No pictures. Thank you.

[onestepforward]

64. When I was younger, Sarah Ferguson.

I wasn't for sure if it was a compliment or not, lol!

[AllenVanAllen]

65. Most recently I was told I look like James Momoa as Khal Drogo from 'Game of Thrones.'

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When I was younger I used to get the "Hey, you look like that guy from that movie La Bamba." fairly often. And, they meant Esai Morales. And when I was even younger I used to get told I looked like Freddie Prince. "Hey, you look like Chico!"

[yuiyoshida]

66. I don't think there are that many Japanese American

Celebrities are there?

[patricia92243]

67. Elizabeth Taylor - when I was young. Not so much now - old and fat :(

[KamaAina]

71. Liz put on some weight herself in her later years

edit: I'm confused. The digits after your name resolve to a SoCal zip code, but your avvie is NC.

[CherokeeDem]

68. Been told by several people....

I look like Hillary Clinton.... if you count her as a celebrity of sorts.

Mostly when my hair was blonder and I wore it much like her short hairstyle.

I'm okay with being compared to her.... respect and admire her greatly.

[lastlib]

69. only if Frankenstein counts as a celebrity......

[Scuba]

70. Peter Graves

[Bake]

72. Kenny Rogers

BEFORE all the plastic surgery! LOL!

Bake

[a kennedy]

73. I was told numerous times I looked and reminded people of Carol Burnett.....

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This was a few years ago.

shoot, picture doesn't show. sorry.

[libodem]

74. I used to get

Has anyone ever told you...you look like Barbara Streisand? Also Susan Summers and one time Kirsti Alley with blond hair.

[eShirl]

77. Majel Barrett Roddenberry told my husband he looked like Brent Spiner.

He was dressed like Data at the time, but still...
She had just signed my Lwaxana Troi doll, looked up at his face and said, "You DO look like Brent."

It was the schnoz.

[livetohike]

78. My Mother's generation thought I looked like Grace Kelly but that was 30 years ago.

I never saw the similarity.

[MysticHuman]

80. Not me but my Great Uncle does....

Here is a comparison.... My Uncle Leo is on the left and Channing Tatum on the right....

My uncle died in a car accident when he was 20 or 21 in the early 1900s.

[Sognefjord]

81. Kaiser Wilhelm II

[2theleft]

82. When I was a kid,

Kristy McNichol

then Marisa Tomei in my 20's

now in my early 40's Dana Delany or her sister Kim.

Curious which brunette they think I will look like in my 50's & 60's

[First Speaker]

83. I'm a dead ringer for the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII...

...which isn't particularly reassuring...:-/...

[TexasBushwhacker]

84. My brother looked enough like Dave Mustaine (Metallica)

that a few people asked for his autograph. They had the same hair. Here's Dave: