Earlier this week, the cashier at the pet supply shop asked me, “Has anyone told you how much you look like David Tennant?” I chuckled as said that, believe it or not,
someone has.
After I left the store, I looked up David Tennant on my phone. That’s when it dawned on me that the person who told me this before was probably that same cashier.
I don’t look all that much like David Tennant.
Twenty-five-ish years ago, a few teenagers told me I looked just like Hugh Grant.
I look even less like Hugh Grant, at any stages of our lives, than I do David Tennant. And I don’t look like David Tennant.
An ex-girlfriend from decades back thought I looked like the singer for Matchbox 20. I don’t look like him, either, nor does he look anything like David Tennant or Hugh Grant.
What about you? Who have you been compared to?
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
2Yeah, this has happened.
John Cusack. Fred Savage. A son on The Brady Bunch.
I don’t think I look like any of them.
John Cusack. Fred Savage. A son on The Brady Bunch.
I don’t think I look like any of them.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
3When I was younger, people often said I looked like Gabe Kaplan or Bernie Kosar. In my 30’s and 40’s, people often said I looked like Norm McDonald, but that was usually when I was drunk. I have an old friend who insists I look like Harrison Ford when the lighting is right. My girlfriend thinks I look like a cross between Clive Owen and Liam Neeson, but she sees me through rose-tinted glasses.
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
4When I was a kid my friend's mom insisted I looked like Macaulay Culkin. When I had longer hair my friend's girlfriend said I looked like Evan Dando. Mr. Dando and I have aged differently, which is lucky for me.
Like many of these tales the Dando connection was quite a reach but flattering.
Like many of these tales the Dando connection was quite a reach but flattering.
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
5Patrick Dempsey
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jason Pierce (J Spaceman)
Donovan
Two of those guys look alike.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jason Pierce (J Spaceman)
Donovan
Two of those guys look alike.
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
6I have a letter in German here somewhere in the basement that I got from some young woman I didn't know (but who seemed to exist and have profiles online) back around 2010 when I still lived in Dortmund telling me that she had seen me around and I looked like Colonel Andrew Brynner as played by Peter Firth in the movie The Chill Factor and would I like to meet up and even if I just looked a little bit like Colonel Andrew Brynner as played by Peter Firth in the movie The Chill Factor that would do it for her.
I posted about it in the love line thread here at the time. I did not reply to the letter. It could have been some eleborate prank but my gut feeling was that it was genuine.
I posted about it in the love line thread here at the time. I did not reply to the letter. It could have been some eleborate prank but my gut feeling was that it was genuine.
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
7I can kinda see that.
I've been told I look like my Dad
"OUR JOB IS TO PROTECT EMPATHY AT ALL COSTS, AND TO LIVE GROOVY LIVES"
- JOE STRUMMER TO JIM JARMUSCH
- JOE STRUMMER TO JIM JARMUSCH
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
8BERNIE FOR REALDave N. wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 9:18 pm When I was younger, people often said I looked like Gabe Kaplan or Bernie Kosar. In my 30’s and 40’s, people often said I looked like Norm McDonald, but that was usually when I was drunk. I have an old friend who insists I look like Harrison Ford when the lighting is right. My girlfriend thinks I look like a cross between Clive Owen and Liam Neeson, but she sees me through rose-tinted glasses.
"OUR JOB IS TO PROTECT EMPATHY AT ALL COSTS, AND TO LIVE GROOVY LIVES"
- JOE STRUMMER TO JIM JARMUSCH
- JOE STRUMMER TO JIM JARMUSCH
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
9A year or 2 ago, I was helping out at a speech and debate tournament. Some high schoolers said I looked like Jimmy Fallon.
I can't see it.
I can't see it.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
Re: Who have you been told you look like?
10A couple of people have said Michael Andretti. I don't really see it, but ithe mentions were a few years apart, so...
"And the light, it burns your skin...in a language you don't understand."