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03 November 2006

Which celebrity do you resemble most? →[More:]

Do you ever get told that you look like someone famous? I already know that ThePinkSuperhero gets told that she looks like a young Liza, and jonmc gets John Cusak all the time. Who else? And do you agree?

post by: iconomy at: 11:04 | 66 comments

Yes, yes I do.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 November | 11:08

I do too, except that you're much cuter.

posted by iconomy 03 November | 11:09

It's totally true, TPS.

I don't think I resemble any celebrities.

posted by Orange Swan 03 November | 11:09

jonmc gets John Cusak all the time

with the recent changes in my look, I've been getting Cusack less and Dave Grohl and Dave Navarro (I kinda like that one) more, actually.

Divine Wino does look quite a bit like a blonde Donal Logue, IMHO. Pips gets told she resembles a young Barbi Benton a lot.

posted by jonmc 03 November | 11:11

I used to look just like Anthony Edwards. I dunno if I do anymore though.

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posted by sciurus 03 November | 11:11

orange swan, i don't think i resemble any celebrities, either, but my sister thinks selma blair looks like me.

posted by crush-onastick 03 November | 11:12

(I said yes, yes I do to say that I get told I look like her a lot, not that I necessarily agree. Although I have seen some pictures of her where I really really see it).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 November | 11:19

Oliver Platt. :(

posted by greasy_skillet 03 November | 11:22

mischeif greatly resembles Dennis Franz. occhiblu looks a little bit like sara gilbert.

posted by jonmc 03 November | 11:23

I don't look like anyone, thank goodness. I don't know how you put up with it, pinky.

posted by gaspode 03 November | 11:25

Steven fucking Segal. All the damned time. Though I once got Penn Gillette.

posted by mrmoonpie 03 November | 11:30

If I Had An Anus.

(Actually, I get Dana Carvey a lot, though I've also gotten Kurt Cobain and (as the grey hair gets more pronounced) Edgar Winter.

posted by danostuporstar 03 November | 11:32

Dana Carvey ... or more specifically The Church Lady.

posted by danostuporstar 03 November | 11:34

In my younger days, I used to get Skippy from Family Ties. I was shorter haired and skinnier then. For a while, people would tell me that I looked like the lead singer of Barenaked Ladies. Woo. Hoo.

In fact, the only cool person anyone has ever told me that I resembled was Penn Jillette, and really, he's not much of a looker!

posted by richat 03 November | 11:38

I have been told that I look like Spalding Grey. Presumably Spalding Grey BEFORE he floated dead for 8 weeks in the East River.

posted by danf 03 November | 11:48

I've been told by several independent sources that I look like Matthew Matthew McConaughey. I'm not sure that I see it, but I accept. Now if only I had his body...

posted by mike9322 03 November | 12:02

I used to get Brooke Shields all the time when I was younger, but that may have been a lame pickup line. ;-) Once somebody thought I was Edie Brickell, so I gave her my autograph. Or her autograph, rather.

posted by mygothlaundry 03 November | 12:03

I rule at the Preview button.

posted by mike9322 03 November | 12:03

I get Sarah Gilbert a lot (especially when I was younger).

I also used to get Anjelica Houston, until I grew a bit more into my nose.

posted by occhiblu 03 November | 12:04

I look like Matthew Matthew McConaughey.

I can see it.

So how do you feel about those high school girls, man...

posted by jonmc 03 November | 12:07

I hear Clooney is sometimes told he looks like mullacc. Poor guy.

posted by mullacc 03 November | 12:08

I get Donny Osmond...uhhhh...Grace Jones...and urrrr...that guy Joe Famoso.

posted by Joe Famous 03 November | 12:10

Girls turn 18 in high school, right?

posted by mike9322 03 November | 12:10

The Wino sometimes looks like Ewan McGregor, as well.

posted by gaspode 03 November | 12:15

What do the following "celebrities" have in common?
Moby
Michael Stipe
Kojak
Woody Harrelson (especially Natural Born Killers era)
Jay Buhner (ex-Mariner outfielder)

posted by safetyfork 03 November | 12:18

Someone said the early Elvis once. Hadn't heard that one before or since.

posted by Hellbient 03 November | 12:20

pode, I'll assume you're referring to the young Obi-Wan era MacGregor.

posted by jonmc 03 November | 12:22

And....(final hint)...Patrick Stewart.

Yeah, they're all bald white guys! No one looks past the obvious when casting me for a celebrity. Of all those, I think I resemble m/w o(o) b/d y most.

posted by safetyfork 03 November | 12:24

When my hair was darker and she was on Cheers, Kirstie Alley. And Joanne Woodward in her earlier years. I can see it, yes.

TPS does have some L in her, but mike has no Matthew Matthew that I can see. Edie Brikell! That's awesome.

posted by rainbaby 03 November | 12:58

Nobody.

My ex-husband was frequently told he looked like Penn Jillette.

posted by matildaben 03 November | 13:10

I don't look like anyone at all. Except myself.

gaspode could double for my friend Jo from college, although she isn't famous.

posted by sisterhavana 03 November | 13:25

Winona Ryder.

posted by JanetLand 03 November | 13:42

I keep hearing Kevin Spacey

posted by pieisexactlythree 03 November | 13:45

I get Johnny Cash a lot

posted by matteo 03 November | 13:46

Wow, those last three are pretty cool. I can see the Kevin Spacey one for Pi, whom I have seen photos of.

posted by richat 03 November | 13:53

I used to get Annie Lennox all the time, but it's only because I have short hair and a similar build to her. We don't look alike. I've also heard Toni Collette, which I don't get, tho it could be because we have similar eyes. Really, I look only like myself, which I quite like.

posted by smich 03 November | 14:31

Denzel.

posted by Divine_Wino 03 November | 14:49

Denzel Wasserman, the guy who runs the dry-cleaners, you mean?

posted by jonmc 03 November | 14:52

My psycho ex claimed that, except for hair color, I resemble the Delany woman from NYPD Blue. As a bonus, she also claimed I had her voice.

I neither believe nor endorse this, just thought I'd throw it in the mix.

posted by mudpuppie 03 November | 14:52

Apparently i look like Jill Scott.

posted by ramix 03 November | 14:59

take that as a compliment. Jill's a hottie.

posted by jonmc 03 November | 15:01

My husband looks a lot like Donny Osmond and Michael Waltrip. I always look like someone's best friend's cousin.

posted by auntbunny 03 November | 15:25

I don't think I particularly look like anybody, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

posted by box 03 November | 15:30

I've been compared to both Elton John and Paul Giamatti, and also Chris Elliott.

I've compared Miko to two lemurs and an owl.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 03 November | 15:36

A young Bonnie Hunt, which I take as a massive compliment because I love her.

Occhiblu..the first time I ever saw a picture of you, the first thing I thought was "Wow...she looks like Sara Gilbert!"

posted by jrossi4r 03 November | 15:37

I've been told I look like Kevin Smith, but I think it's just due to the beard and glasses. (He also outweighs me by at least 40 pounds.)

posted by BoringPostcards 03 November | 15:38

According to some crappy online face recognition tool, I look like Keanu Reeves, which I don't see at all and no one has ever mentioned.

Therefore, I don't look like anyone except me. So there.

posted by TheDonF 03 November | 15:54

Yeah, jrossi, I don't the resemblance has faded as much as Gilbert's not really in the popular consciousness as much now that Roseanne is off the air, so I just don't hear that as much.

And ikkyu2 is pretty much dead-on for Quentin Tarantino.

posted by occhiblu 03 November | 15:56

Does anybody here look like David Straithairn?

posted by JanetLand 03 November | 16:06

When I was younger, people told me Molly Ringwald all the time. Now that I've lost the baby fat, it's Katherine Keener. There was one week last year where, on three separate occassions, a complete stranger approached me and asked me if anyone had told me I looked like Katherine Keener. I was flattered, I think she's pretty.

occhi, you do look like Sara Gilbert, but you're prettier.

posted by Specklet 03 November | 16:17

Oh, wait wait wait. It's Cosmo Kramer.

posted by Specklet 03 November | 16:18

I don't know who Katherine Keener is, Specklet, but yeah you definately look like her.

jrossi, I've always pictured you as dark-haired for some reason.

posted by danostuporstar 03 November | 16:34

It strikes me that the perm I sported through ninth grade may also have made the Sara Gilbert thing more obvious.

I can see both Katherine Keener and Kim Delaney (though I think the hair helps on that one, too).

posted by occhiblu 03 November | 16:35

No one that I'm aware of, unfortunately. It'd be fun to tell people that I am [C-LIST CELEBRITY] and urge them to google me when they get home.

posted by cmonkey 03 November | 16:42

This is actually a picture of me. I look exactly like that. O yes.

posted by Specklet 03 November | 16:51

No, silly, that's mudpuppie.

posted by occhiblu 03 November | 16:57

I have been told either just that I have a famous face or I have been told I resemble Shirley Temple, Molly Ringworm and I was insulted..., Ashley Judd - I don't see it, Sigourney Weaver, ICK!, Rita Hayworth, and Madeline Kahn.

posted by getoffmylawn 03 November | 17:41

Bella Emberg.

posted by essexjan 03 November | 19:01

I don't look like anyone famous, but my ex looked an awful lot like Southside Johnny in certain pictures.

posted by redvixen 03 November | 19:37

When I was a kid I was told I look like Kristy McNichol. I didn't, and don't, see it nor do I think I look like anyone else.

posted by deborah 03 November | 19:57

Upon further reflection, it might be just as well that I don't look like anybody, because, if I did, it would probably be, y'know, some jagov rap-rocker or friend-of-Bam-Margera or Scientologist or something.

posted by box 03 November | 20:17

I get "Jesus" a lot, when my hair is down, but mostly I look like that non-celebrity friend you knew back in highschool/college.

posted by cortex 03 November | 21:15

I get told I look like Drew Carey a few times a month. Back when he was on tv more I got it a few times a week.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 03 November | 21:45

When I met Slacks in Chicago, he told me to look for a person who resembled Drew Carey.

And he was right -- it worked.

:)

posted by mudpuppie 03 November | 21:50

When I was little I looked like that Timmy kid from Jurassic Park, about the same age. Not so much anymore.

One time via and I found a picture of a young Che Guevara that looked like me.

But right now, I'm just uniquely sexy.

posted by kyleg 03 November | 23:33

Ricki Lake.

Not everyone thinks so, but the people who think I look like her INSIST that I am her, or related to her.

When I had long long hair I very much resembled her circa Cry Baby, I will admit, minus the fake pregnancy part. Or maybe I just like the idea of being a greaser...

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posted by SassHat 03 November | 23:59

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