Who would play you?

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 5:27 pm

Whenever my wife and I are trying to describe someone we've met, a common question we ask is "Who would play them in a movie?" This gets a good picture of the person in our heads. So, to get pictures of each other in our heads....

What famous person do people say you look like?

I've been told William Hurt and John Lithgow.

Your turn.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:23 pm

I've gotten 'kid rock' a bunch...but thats when I let my hair grow long.

I used to get corey feldman a bunch when I was a kid (and he was a kid)

havn't heard anything lately

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:47 pm

Jim of Seattle wrote:"Who would play them in a movie?"

I have sent out preliminary scripts of "These are the Jokes: The Erik Brandon Story" to several interested parties.

So far, China Chow has said that she is unwilling to tape down her boobs and let her eyebrows grow in, Dean Cain says he won't lose 30 pounds and get a decent haircut, and Benjamin Bratt says that he doesn't think he needs acting lessons, and he wouldn't even know how to begin to (as I suggested in the sticky note attached to the script) "not be such a ginormous tool."

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:27 pm

When I was younger, I was often compared quite favourably to Alfred E Newman.

When I was a bit older and playing football, one of the opposition teams we played would regularly taunt me with, " give the ball to Ritchie...", a reference to my supposed resemblence to Ron 'Ritchie Cunningham' Howard.

apologies my photo avatar is not up at the moment for comparison - I buggered something up on my webspace on the weekend and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet

john m · Post by **john m** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:30 pm

With glasses (and regard to humor), I've heard Stephen Colbert more than once. Without glasses, I've heard Matthew Broderick.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:37 pm

i get told at least once a week that i look like cameron (alan ruck) from ferris buellers day off.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:06 pm

Back in the early nineties, when I had long red hair and was quite thin, I used to get told that I looked like Nicole Kidman. One of my friends showed me a picture of her and Tom in People magazine and it really did look like a picture of me and Tom Cruise! Ah, those were the days! But, now that I'm older, cut my hair, etc. I just get told that I look like so and so's sister.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:34 pm

actually, my ex-girlfriend's grandmother would always tell her how much i looked like james bond (pierce brosnan). then again she's like 90 years old too and can't see to well. my girlfriend after college used to say i looked like tom cruise. you can decide here (she's the one who said it)

to answer the question, i'd personally pick tim roth.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:38 pm

William Hurt and, long ago, David Soul. Now no-one recognizes me and I walk the streets that were once my beat in a happy, anonymous bliss.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:55 pm

I can't think of any celebrity that I look like. This either means I'm not pretty enough to be a famous person or I'm too unique.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:59 pm

In high school, working at Tops (supermarket), I would get told at least once a day that I looked like Doogie Howser. I won a costume contest senior year... easiest costume ever.
However, these days we don't look that much alike any more... I saw him in the Joan of Arc tv-movie.
But he's probably still the closest - so Neil Patrick Harris.
Here's me in concert.
-bill

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:02 pm

Hmmm... I get "Seinfeld"-era Michael Richards and "Taxi"-era Christopher Lloyd (Reverend Jim!) a lot. Must be the hair. And the attitude.

Then there was PinV, excuse me, The Hip Cola, from Leafy, back at the Seattle show.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:35 pm

back when the first weezer album came out, a couple friends of mine (whom i was in a band with) kept asking me about how "my other band" was doing -- they tried to tell me the dude on the right in the picture on the (blue) album cover looked exactly like me. *shrug*

a couple years later, i was informed that gary oldman's character in the fifth element looked like me, except my hair was slightly less abnormal.

and then, earlier this year, based on this picture, glenn case told me i look like keanu reeves in the matrix.

Southwest_Statistic · Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:14 am

Back when I was a lot younger, I was told I looked like Macaulay Culkin during the time when the first "Home Alone" movie came out. This has changed quite a bit from when I was 9 though, I'm sure. <a href='http://69.244.191.218:82/images/shea_guitar_0.jpg' target='_blank'>I'm don't know who I look like now - if I look like anyone</a>.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:17 am

If you broke Kurt Russell's nose, he could play me....that or a thinner Jack Black... thinner and taller...with my nose... and my hair... ah fuck it. I'll keep the job.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:24 am

Southwest_Statistic wrote:<a href='http://69.244.191.218:82/images/shea_guitar_0.jpg' target='_blank'>I'm don't know who I look like now - if I look like anyone</a>.

That's a strange haircut.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:26 am

Who would play me? Marcel Bouvier.

Google it, suckers!

j$

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:59 am

That's me on the left, sometime around 1991.
I look a fair bit different now, but this is the only photo I have on hand, and things haven't improved significantly since, so there you go.
When I was a young'un, I was told I looked like Alfred E. Neuman. I pretty much grew out of that.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:19 am

Southwest_Statistic wrote:Back when I was a lot younger, I was told I looked like Macaulay Culkin during the time when the first "Home Alone" movie came out. This has changed quite a bit from when I was 9 though, I'm sure. <a href='http://69.244.191.218:82/images/shea_guitar_0.jpg' target='_blank'>I'm don't know who I look like now - if I look like anyone</a>.

Southwest??

Kinda look like Neil Patrick Harris to me...

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:28 am

...or Christopher Masterson...

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:45 pm

I've just recalled a recent one. Not long ago I went out to dinner with a friend and her new boyfriend. I later received feedback that the new beau had a lovely evening, and was particularly amused by "the bloke who looked and sounded just like Graeme Garden from The Goodies"

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:57 pm

jim tyrell = travis bickle

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