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People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

— Minnie Driver

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

— Matt Groening

It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

— Bill Hader

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

— Liam McIntyre

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

— Kitty Carlisle

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

— Michael Clarke Duncan

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

— Billy Wilder

✗Opposing Perspectives

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

— Rip Torn

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

— Tim Daly

I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.

— Paula Garces