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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you look like or resemble a celebrity?
Supposedly, I look like Bruce Willis and have had strangers say that too me. How about you?
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I am nowhere near as burly.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)and then I realized that I recognized him in Hawaii Five-O
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)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
(8,217 posts)Also leaner and less muscular. I also don't have his chest hair. Hence, burly.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I'm 6'3" and 240# so I guess I would be considered 'burly'.
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
(7,720 posts)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
(8,217 posts)I just don't want to any more.
I'm happy with what I have.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)in the 1990s movie "Only The Strong"?
a lot of very cool Capoeira stuff
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)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
(9,436 posts)I say "Yippee Ki Ya Mother@#$%".
petronius
(26,595 posts)But I expect I will eventually.
GReedDiamond
(5,310 posts)...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
(24,228 posts)but I look like Karl Rove.
GReedDiamond
(5,310 posts)...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
(21,020 posts)You would probably be better off resembling your namesake...
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)in high school told me that I look like Carlton from Fresh Prince.
BainsBane
(53,010 posts)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
(37,457 posts)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
(53,339 posts)pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)A co-worker once looked straight at me and asked "What ARE you?!"
Translation: "What unfortunate genetic/ethnic DNA collision produced you?!"
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)"You clean up pretty good."
P.S.: Welcome to DU, pablo_marmol!
denbot
(9,897 posts)I don't see it.
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)The writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene
denbot
(9,897 posts)Seems like even more of a stretch.
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)a bit more of a stretch, but now I do see Graham Greene the actor. At least at a quick glance.
mucifer
(23,466 posts)Gotta be a certain age to know who she was.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And now let's read a letter from Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey...
mucifer
(23,466 posts)Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)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
(56,582 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)the Pillsbury Doughboy
TM99
(8,352 posts)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
(54,268 posts)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
(21,020 posts)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
(66,274 posts)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
(36,818 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)progressoid
(49,929 posts)Sorry, I've never actually watched the movies but that's what somebody told me once.
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)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
(8,646 posts)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
(36,364 posts)Now I have something to look forward to in my golden years
Blue Diadem
(6,597 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 26, 2014, 05:04 PM - Edit history (1)
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
(22,845 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,371 posts)This is a LONG time ago--late 60's.
Frankly, I never saw it.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)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
(1,365 posts)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
(9,884 posts)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
(9,077 posts)When he was alive.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I've been told that I look like Bernadette Peters.
I wasn't ever sure if that was a compliment or not...
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)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
(6,251 posts)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
(27,787 posts)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
(30,712 posts)She laughed and said it happened a lot. She said she just has one of "those faces."
I guess you do, too!
Jokerman
(3,518 posts)That's one of the reasons I started wearing it longer again.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)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
(30,947 posts)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
(47,534 posts)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
(3,510 posts)???? They don't look at all alike to me.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Sophia Loren.
Now I look like Carlo Ponti.
BainsBane
(53,010 posts)Sophia Loren.
Initech
(100,028 posts)"When you look like I do it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck-E-Cheese."
Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)No pictures. Thank you.
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)I wasn't for sure if it was a compliment or not, lol!
AllenVanAllen
(3,134 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 28, 2014, 03:02 AM - Edit history (1)
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
(41,818 posts)Celebrities are there?
patricia92243
(12,591 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)edit: I'm confused. The digits after your name resolve to a SoCal zip code, but your avvie is NC.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)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
(23,135 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)BEFORE all the plastic surgery! LOL!
Bake
a kennedy
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This was a few years ago.
shoot, picture doesn't show. sorry.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Has anyone ever told you...you look like Barbara Streisand? Also Susan Summers and one time Kirsti Alley with blond hair.
eShirl
(18,477 posts)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
(22,118 posts)MysticHuman
(219 posts)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
(229 posts)2theleft
(1,136 posts)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
(4,858 posts)...which isn't particularly reassuring...:-/...
TexasBushwhacker
(20,129 posts)that a few people asked for his autograph. They had the same hair. Here's Dave: