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  QuakerDave

  1 year ago

  I wish I could say Jon Cusack.
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  JJohnson

  1 year ago

  Natalie Imbruglia - http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebs/...
  
  Because seriously I've had a giant crush on her since I was like, 12. <. .>; ... What? >.> I can't have someone 1/3rd my size and female with shorter hair than me play... me? <,<;;
  
  But no, seriously - I actually like genderswapped characters (and yes, in a movie adaptation of Shakesville I'm definitely a character), and as such I think it'd be interesting to see a woman play my part; to see what nuances she'd take from my parts in the script that perhaps maybe I wouldn't have or would have done differently.
  
  Then again, I'm a tid bit narcissistic, I like seeing how other people view me, and this would be sorta the ultimate version of that ya know? <. .>m
  
  I suppose if I have to be more "Who's actually a conventionally appropriate actor to play you..." thing though...
  
  I think Michael J. Fox would actually fit well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Fox
  
  His face actually looks fairly similar to mine. (Look at the 2008 picture, not the 1988 one); so if he grew his hair out and put on a little weight, he'd have that down. I also think he'd find it easy to mirror my personality - semi-witty, self-conscious, stubborn as all heck - I've seen him do every one of those things very effectively on screen.
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  Carolyn

  1 year ago

  Katharine Hepburn or I dun wanna play!
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  RedEmma

  1 year ago

  Oooh, can I have Tina Fey?
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  misfitina

  1 year ago

  I realize it wouldn't be a "big" part, but Sara Rue would be fitting...
  http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2517461.jpg?v=1&...
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  Acrimonious Astraea

  1 year ago

  JJohnson, that is so weird, I was trying to think of Natalie Imbruglia's name yesterday. I got my hair cut just like hers when she was really popular.
  
  Claire Daines would play me. Or Clea DuVall.
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  theblazes

  1 year ago

  My daughter once described Antonio Banderas (!) as "that guy who looks like you". She was referring to once when I came out of the pool with my hair slicked back. But I would lean more toward Ernest Borgnine. He tends to play fun-loving, unconventional guys who can be calm in a crisis if necessary. If I could pick who I would like to be able to play me, I'd probably go with Lee Marvin, no resemblance whatsoever, though.
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  CoolAunt

  1 year ago

  Mary Tyler Moore would play me because we look alike. Before her face lift, that is.
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  Marissa M.

  1 year ago

  Little Orphan Annie would play me because even though she is a fictional character, we are long lost twins (except for the fact that she is an orphan and is BFFs with FDR).
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  Misty

  1 year ago

  Hm. I was going to say Claire Danes.
  
  But. Hmmm. Maybe Lauren Ambrose with dark hair.
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  Susan

  1 year ago

  Emma Thompson. So there.
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  JenTucker

  1 year ago

  Alexis Bledel, drawing on early Rory.
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  Crissa

  1 year ago

  Haven't we had this question before? ^-^
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  Mustang Bobby

  1 year ago

  Will Poston.
  
  Hey, he's already played "me" on stage, so... why not?
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  Sunburned Counsel

  1 year ago

  I hate to disagree with the QC of FM, but when I think Iain, I think Glen Hansard. Every time.
  
  Me? I'd be played by Lori Petty.
  Or Samantha Morton- with her hair like it is in "In America".
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  tinfoil hattie

  1 year ago

  Hmmm, Stockard Channing, I think. She's older than I am, but what the heck. She's cooler than I am, too.
  
  ETA: Yikes! I didn't mean to sound ageist. I meant, she's older than I am (by about 15 years) so it isn't that realistic a pairing. Dang. I'm just getting myself in more trouble here!
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  Red Queen

  1 year ago

  I haven't the faintest idea, nobody really looks like me. But if we're going with your superfabulous fantasy self- Rachel Weisz
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  bekitty

  1 year ago

  Anna Paquin. At least she's the right gender and nationality, if not age.
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  Raging Hippie

  1 year ago

  Conchata Ferrell. Wearing tie-dye.
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  car

  1 year ago

  Who I want to play me: Reese Witherspoon.
  Who would probably be cast as me instead: Mindy Cohn with her hair dyed blond.
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  Mustang Bobby

  1 year ago

  Conchata Ferrell. Wearing tie-dye.
  
  RH, I've met Conchata Ferrell several times, and she is so cool. And tie-dye is most assuredly her.
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  DSimon

  1 year ago

  I wish: Edward Norton.
  
  More likely: The Home Alone kid.
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  Dolores Shade

  1 year ago

  I've met Conchata Ferrell several times, and she is so cool. And tie-dye is most assuredly her.
  
  I'm so happy to hear she is (cool, that is). I'm always happy when I see her in something. She's one of my favorites. (Does anyone remember the sitcom ER?)
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  Dolores Shade

  1 year ago

  I don't know who would play me. Maybe Helena Bonham Carter in a fat suit?
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  deeky

  1 year ago

  Matthew Pidgeon
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  SanguineDream

  1 year ago

  Anthony Anderson.
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  Chairman Meow

  1 year ago

  If we're talking about physical appearance, John Goodman (maybe George Wendt, maybe). If we're going by personality, I'd have to say the best choice would be...a ficus.
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  TheSeaHag

  1 year ago

  Grace Kelly. (If she, you know, resurrected herself, went up several dress sizes, and dyed her hair a light reddish-brown.) I spent years thinking my mom only said I resembled Grace Kelly because she was blinded by maternal affection. But I looked at some pictures of her recently and I'm not gorgeous like her, but there is a resemblance. Which is cool because I always loved her.
  
  My friends and I used to play this game. I had more fun casting them than I did hearing their picks for me. :/
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  Jen

  1 year ago

  In my dream world, Monica Bellucci. You know what, none of you know what I look like, I'm going to pretend I look like Monica Bellucci.
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  Phoenician in a time of Romans

  1 year ago

  Bekitty: Anna Paquin. At least she's the right gender and nationality, if not age.
  
  Pardon me while I piss myself laughing.
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  kate217

  1 year ago

  Well, Raging Hippie beat me to my first choice. (I've loved Ferrell since Hot L Baltimore.) During the 80's I was frequently mistaken for Lisa Whelchel and was a dead ringer (parson the pun) for the Star80 poster photo of Mariel Hemingway. Of course, they'd both have to gain about 150 pounds to play me now, but it's a small price to pay for the role of a lifetime. ;D
  
  Kathy Bates doesn't look anything like me, but it would rock my world to have her play me, anyway.
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  DoctorJay

  1 year ago

  Based on looks, Phil Collins. I'm a dead ringer. Moreso back when he and Genesis were at the top. I can't dance, I can't sing....and so on. And I liked him in that movie he was in, I think it was called Buster.
  
  Based on temperament, maybe more Ian Holm. Maybe Paul Bettany. His portrayal of Stephen Maturin was something I could really relate to.
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  justnick

  1 year ago

  Steve Strange, especially now that he's thirty years older than me.
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  Mustang Bobby

  1 year ago

  I've met Conchata Ferrell several times, and she is so cool. And tie-dye is most assuredly her.
  
  I'm so happy to hear she is (cool, that is). I'm always happy when I see her in something. She's one of my favorites. (Does anyone remember the sitcom ER?)
  
  I most definitely remember the sitcom E/R... with a young George Clooney! Conchata Ferrell was also in the short-lived Hot L Baltimore TV series, based on the Lanford Wilson play; she played April both on stage and TV.
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  Phoenician in a time of Romans

  1 year ago

  And before bekitty retaliates, I cheerfully admit that the best actor for me would be the Cave Troll from the LoTR movies.
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  maisnon

  1 year ago

  Oddly enough, I saw Debra Winger today!
  
  And, I would be played by Janeane Garofolo. But taller. And Indian.
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  Sniper

  1 year ago

  Kathy Bates, circa Misery. I don't look like her except in build, but we have similar mannerisms. Plus, I love her.
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  annaham

  1 year ago

  Hanna Hall, 'cept she'd have to gain about 60 pounds first.
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  Deborah

  1 year ago

  Bette Midler 100% is me, except 16 years older.
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  minstrel hussain boy

  1 year ago

  daniel day-lewis
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  kate217

  1 year ago

  Wait a sec....
  
  I have a degree in acting and directing, can I play myself?
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  cory

  1 year ago

  Probably Bruce Harwood.
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  konagod

  1 year ago

  Crispin Glover?
  
  “But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.”
  
  “Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.”
  
  “The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.”
  
  That about sums it up.
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  bluegal

  1 year ago

  Tina Fey. <a href="http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-got-new-glasses-yesterday.html"Now shut up.
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  bluegal

  1 year ago

  trying again with the link. Shoot.
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  Deborah

  1 year ago

  Chairman, I have a mad crush on John Goodman.
  
  If we're going with fantasy casting, Minnie Driver.
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  Mustang Bobby

  1 year ago

  I have a degree in acting and directing, can I play myself?
  
  Hey kate217... looking for a script to direct? [hint hint]...
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  megankay

  1 year ago

  Sarah Silverman, if the primary basis is looks. I don't see it, but strangers stop me all the time to say it.
  
  My dream casting is probably Amber Tamblyn, though. I loved her in Joan of Arcadia, I have a mad crush on her dad (Riff from West Side Story).
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  TA

  1 year ago

  Angela Bassett. Even though I am a dumpy white lady.
  
  In my DREAMS I am tall and elegant and have bone structure that will make me look gorgeous when I'm 90. So there.
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  RedSonja

  1 year ago

  Attitude-wise - Brett Butler's character in Grace Under Fire. My mom and I both get that.... As far as looks, well -- Janeane Garolfalo?
  
  KarateMonkey described himself as "Silent Bob, only taller" in his online ad before we met. Except now his hair is shorter and curly, so he has quite the fro. It's adorable.
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  sunnyhello

  1 year ago

  Ain't nobody looks like me 'cept my mama. So I'll go with Julia Ormond, who does so well with the "smart but clueless" look.
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  J.Goff

  1 year ago

  Jack Black or John Goodman would probably do for me, or a larger Sean Astin. I would say Jonah Hill, but I'm not a fan of his. They'd have to wear the requisite glasses, though.
  
  [edited to fix typos...btw, I am beginning to love DisQus]
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  foxfire_J

  1 year ago

  As far as looks, there is the new British singer, Adele, who I only wish I could sing like. I'm a little more blonde, but close.
  
  Maybe Emme, but she's so much hotter than I am.
  
  Not looking like me, but whose personality/acting talent I like is Marissa Jaret Winokur
  
  As a fat chick, I don't see a lot of celebs that look like me. *Sighs*
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  SteffaB

  1 year ago

  My PMB would be Camryn Manheim for physicality and attitude, and I'm certainly the kind of woman who could wear $10 shoes (as long as they're comfortable!) with a $600 dress.
  
  My fantasy PMB would be Queen Latifah, and I would wear the dress from "When You're Good To Mama" to the grocery store. Every day. ;-)
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  Anna

  1 year ago

  In my personal universe, in which I am an important part of the Shakesville Family (and totally not confused with the two other Annas who post here), I am played by Dame Judi Dench. Cuz, in my personal universe, I am that awesome. And self confident. And amazing. Yes, Yes I am. *nodnod*
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  Theotoks

  1 year ago

  I am totally the Laura Linney "type." My sweetheart would be played by Daniel Craig. (Lucky me)
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  TheSeaHag

  1 year ago

  Ooh, Anna, I was going to pick Judi Dench! But I'm not quite that awesome. She's one of the few people who, if I met her, I think I'd just be reduced to wide-eyed babbling.
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  Meowser

  1 year ago

  Well, Meryl Streep can play anything, can't she? I'm sure she'd love to take a crack at me, although she'd probably have a hard time gaining enough weight.
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  Faith

  1 year ago

  According to just about everyone who has ever met me in person, Drew Barrymore. But you'd need to add a few years.
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  Raging Hippie

  1 year ago

  RH, I've met Conchata Ferrell several times, and she is so cool. And tie-dye is most assuredly her.
  
  Total envy! I adore her. "Heartland" is near the top of my favorite-movies list.
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  Melissa McEwan

  1 year ago

  when I think Iain, I think Glen Hansard
  
  He's Irish! And too thin. If you want to cast Iain for looks, Phillip Seymour Hoffman is the bloke for the job.
  
  Or Louie C.K.
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  Broce

  1 year ago

  Dunno who'd play me. A smart, mouthy cool-looking petite middle aged blonde. And by cool I dont mean like 'whoa, cool' more like...ice queen cool, only not that cold.
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  Chet Scoville

  1 year ago

  Maybe Tim Roth, but he'd have to gain some weight.
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  femmina

  1 year ago

  This would, so far, be a very very small part...but...
  
  Okay...younger goldie hawn (I'm 20...so...yeah.) 'cause I've always been kinda fond of her. Fiona Apple 'cause...uhm...just 'cause. And...uh...anyone awesome? I'm sorta bad at this game.
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  Vicster

  1 year ago

  Well, 30 years ago I'd have easily gone with Melissa Gilbert. I was constantly mistaken for her (and I happened to love LHOTP...though the books moreso than the show).
  
  Now? I haven't the slightest idea. Maybe Katee Sackhoff, if she gained 100 lbs. ;-)
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  Vicster

  1 year ago

  Oh, and obviously, they'd have to age Katee, too...
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  marindenver

  1 year ago

  Well, I always used to want to be Diane Keaton although she's taller (but in my younger, much younger, days not so far off the mark) but of late I think Jennifer Saunders who if I was half as smart and funny as she I would be totally content. NOBODY can fall out of a car like Jennifer. And the Saunders and French stuff are the most classic satires ever in any genre.
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  Greg

  1 year ago

  Chiowetel Ejiofor for me.
  
  On an entirely unrelated note, if they ever want to cast a black James Bond, he's your man.
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  Blue Jean

  1 year ago

  According to one guy, I look like Alanis Morrisette, to which I answered "You oughta know." (but not quite that angrily. Nothing short of an erupting volcano could be quite that angry.)
  
  I want to say Meredith Brooks for humor, but after I saw Alanis spoof "My Humps." I said "Yeah, that'd be me." Besides, she played God in Dogma, so she could definitely play me. ;-)
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  oddjob

  1 year ago

  I will say again who I've always said - Campbell Scott.
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  angryyoungwoman

  1 year ago

  I don't think they make actresses as short as I am. But if you're going for looks, try Emma Thompson subtracting about eight inches of height and adding some length to her nose (yes, I do have quite the well-developed schnoz).
  
  Knowing hollywood, though, they'd probably get some terrifying Liv Tyler-esque creature who always looks like she's on the verge of tears and whose legs come up to her armpits. Even I would walk out within the first five minutes.
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  Jeff Fecke

  1 year ago

  Jason Alexander. He's a bit short and a bit old, but he's precisely bald enough and does beaten-down schmoe to perfection.
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  Camera Obscura

  1 year ago

  But darling, Matt MacFayden appears to have made a previous choice. *grins* (Honestly, he was just playing w/ Phil at the BAFTAs.)
  
  Hubs says for intensity, rather than looks, I should go with Tilda Swinton. I dunno anybody famous that I look like...
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  Melissa McEwan

  1 year ago

  On an entirely unrelated note, if they ever want to cast a black James Bond, he's your man.
  
  I just said that very same thing a few days ago!
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  K.A.

  1 year ago

  When I was younger, a few different people told me I look like Angelina Jolie (!!) which made my life improve by approximately 2,067%--not that I'm as hot as she is, of course. But now that I've hit the ripe old age of 25, I've had 4 different people tell me I look like a clone of "the chick from Big Love," AKA Amanda Seyfried. She's no Angelina Jolie, but hey, I'll take it! (FYI, I am also not as hot as she is.)
  
  Castmates? Hmm...my mother is way too awesome for me to demote her personality and looks to those of some awful Hollyweirdo. I don't know!
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  K.A.

  1 year ago

  I haven't seen a lot of photos of Iain, but he's way hotter than Philip Seymour Hoffman!
  
  I want to change my answer to Konagod's: Crispin Glover, who would be a perfect fit as me, even though I'm a girl.
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  Michael (cannablog)

  1 year ago

  Johnny Depp?
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  GOM

  1 year ago

  Anthony Hopkins. I'm quite certain that with a little work he could develop his Hannibal Lecter chaaracter into someone really nasty and that would just about do the trick. But he has to leave his hair uncombed.
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  blusilva

  1 year ago

  Roseanne. Without the kids, but all the attitude.
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  madaha

  1 year ago

  Susan: Me too!
  
  I totally see myself as a brainy Emma Thompson type, but my friends have said Phoebe from Friends, and I've also gotten Terri Garr (who played Phoebe's mother on Friends, so... weird!!)
  
  So I dunno. It doesn't make sense. I'm totally bookish and brainy, but around other people suddenly I'm insecure and spacey like Terri Garr. Is this why I can't get a professorship?
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  MR Bill

  1 year ago

  John Goodman or a younger Orson Welles (I portrayed Orson in a local production of "War of the Worlds: the Radio Play".)
  Or maybe a younger Brian Blessed.
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  Purple Pasta

  1 year ago

  MR Bill if you take John Goodman,who's going to play me in the movie? LOL!
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  Purple Pasta

  1 year ago

  Oh, wait a minute. If Michael Chiklis put on a few pounds,and soften his voice up a bit.
  He could play me.
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  Bill Wolfrum

  1 year ago

  Gerard Butler. So that way at least for about two hours, my wife will desire me as much as she desires Gerard Butler.
  
  Bill
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  MR Bill

  1 year ago

  Hell JosephSmall, he's a actor, we could bluescreen him. That and he gets to do a southern accent..
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  bettyboondoggle

  1 year ago

  Because I'm vain, I have to say Rosario Dawson. She's gorgeous and, since movies are an escape, I can pretend I look more like her. :)
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  Sunburned Counsel

  1 year ago

  Greg, I think I might be in love with you.
  Liss, I know Glen Hansard is Irish, but I think they have very similar face structures, and that gorgeous hair. But I defer to your Colin Firth- even if he's English.
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  soboho

  1 year ago

  When I was young and slender, people said I looked like Helena Bonham Carter, but now she'd have to gain 40 lbs to play me in a movie (or, she could just play a more fabulous me)
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  MsFeasance

  1 year ago

  Julia Stiles all the way--I look like her (vaguely, if you're squinting) and the sarcasm and snarky voice are a perfect fit.
  As for Mr. Feasance, he looks vaguely like Jim Carrey circa Eternal Sunshine, but I'd go with Lewis Black on personality. (Also, Lew's sense of humor is waaay hotter.)
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  Bill in Birmingham

  1 year ago

  One of those no named actors who plays minor forgettable characters.
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  DivaJean

  1 year ago

  John Candy- in drag as a somewhat crunchy granola earth mother lesbian w/ 4 kids. Costumed in skecher criss cross maryjane shoes, a long to the floor teeshirt type dress and one of those harmony ball necklaces on a black cord (from mid 90's- my 1 year old baby loves it, sue me!)-- and black Daria type glasses with many hoop earrings. That's the nearest approximation of who I am and what it would take to realistically represent me. Sadly, it could never be (sniff).
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  liberalandproud

  1 year ago

  Ok, since Camryn Manheim is already taken, and it would be a very small role . . . I would play myself! I've got one of those handy-dandy acting degrees, too! (2, actually. Stupid student loans!)
  Edit: Even better: my college friend Amy Roeder, who is way more talented, gets me, and is about to have her second acting degree.
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  constant comment

  1 year ago

  I'd have to go with Meryl Streep. We're close in age and both blonde.
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  bgk

  1 year ago

  Timothy Olyphant -- We seem to be following each other's hair and fashion trends.
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  maurinsky

  1 year ago

  I'm going to think of this in terms of casting by type rather than appearance, because I think that happens a lot in movieworld. Somehow, this leads me to Philip Seymour Hoffman, even though he's a man and I'm a woman.
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  Arkades

  1 year ago

  Kevin Smith. Same age, similar appearance, similar geek interests. If I didn't know better, I would swear he and I were somehow separated at birth.
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  votermom

  1 year ago

  I demand Kate Winslet, on the grounds that someone once told me we have the same eyelids. Or Phoebe Cates, because she kind of looks like my sister, and I kind of look like my sister (minus the pretty) ...LOL.
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  Gentlewoman

  1 year ago

  I've been told for years that I look like a younger Anjelica Huston.
  
  http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MM...
  
  All she will need to do is bleach her hair Andy Warhol white like I do and wear grey contacts. I don't care about the age thing.
  
  I think I am more Royal Tannenbaums Huston than Addams Family. Now that I am older, I let other people bring the crazy. That's why I don't comment so much--I'm usually giggling too hard.
  
  PS Fucking disqus hasn't let me log in for days, so I'm flying unverified. :(
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  Magda

  1 year ago

  Some people say I look a bit like Julia Stiles, so I guess I say her. Although she's maybe a little too old to play me (I'm 18).
  OMG, if Colin Firth were to play Mr. Shakes, I'd soooo totally watch it (well, i'd watch the Shakesville movie with any other actor, as well). But I looooove the Colin Firth Darcy, I've seen that movie like 6 times at least.
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  Jay in Oregon

  1 year ago

  When I was a teenager I was told that I looked like a young Tom Hanks. I'm not sure if that's the case any more.
  
  I'd like John Cusack to play me, because he would make me seem as smart and witty as I imagine myself actually being.
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  InfamousQBert

  1 year ago

  if it's set in my child/teenage years, it's jodie foster all the way. i think i got told daily that i looked AND sounded like her. as i've aged, my face has changed and i don't get that anymore :( . going on personality, at least of the character she's best known for, maybe laurel holloman (tina on the L word). but i need more goofy in there. so, maybe leisha hailey (alice on the L word). i promise i know other actresses from other shows, but that's just what popped into my head.
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  Chlorinex

  1 year ago

  Nathan Lane - it's a lock
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  mustella

  1 year ago

  "Because, as it turns out, I'm married to Mr. Darcy. Minus the ancestral estate."
  
  Lucky!!
  
  A friend once told me that Jeneane Garofalo would have to play me. I squeed for days afterward.
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