There are two ways of approaching the fact that you look a lot like a celebrity. One is to ruthlessly break it to people that, unfortunately, they are mistaken, you aren't Tom Cruise or Jake Gyllenhaal, and that they shouldn't look for their phone so they could snap a pic with you. That's the disappointment approach. The other way of dealing with it is embracing your looks and just going along with the person that walks up to you with an enamored expression on their face and starts spilling compliments about your work. That's the one that's a little more fun.
The people listed below (some of them - actual celebrities) went for the latter and that way made the day of many people, who thought they met their heroes. Scroll down below to see whether you would be confused by these lookalikes as well!
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Matt Or Mark?
Here's Me Before A Hugh Laurie Concert, With Some Guy Who's Not Hugh Laurie
Morgan Freeman
Someone Pretended To Be Tom Cruise In A Small Chicken Shop In North Eastern Thailand And Is Remembered There Forever
Isn't that the place that you can tell them you're famous and they'll give you free food? I've heard friends of mine do that...
Wow, What Are The Odds Of Finding Robert Downy Jr. In A Small Texas Mall?
Hate To Break It To Ya Buddy
3 Years Ago, Happy Drunk, I Thought I Met Jake Gyllenhaal… I'm Now 90% Sure I Didn't
That Ain't Drake
A Homeless Man Convinced Me He Was George RR Martin
I figured it out like a week later when he was still there with his 'agent' and his trolley. i had to walk past him everyday for a couple weeks and i avoided eye contact with him because it was too embarrassing on my part.
Why is meeting celebrities so important to people?! Who the f**k cares?
Peter Dinklage Bought Us Drinks!
She Thought She Met Tyler The Creator
That's Not Him Sweetie
My Friend's Special Bachelorette Party Guest: Morgan Freeman
i'm asking the same question! That has to be the closet look-alike to Morgan Freeman if it isn't actually him.
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I have done a side-by-side comparison of Morgan Freeman puling a similar face and I am pretty darn sure that is the real deal. Earring in the same ear - CHECK, Forehead wrinkles in the same place - CHECK, Same eye being slightly bigger than the other - CHECK. download-5...49b178.jpg 
Thanks for the support guys! It’s 100% him. I’m on the right. He has a house outside of Memphis. He comes in town all the time.
Thanks for all the support guys! It’s 100% him. I’m on the right. He has a house near Memphis. He is in town all the time.
Idk there is something I think its the height that's making me think this isn't him
What Black Widow technology are we using if that's not Morgan freeman???
Been A Year Today Since She Thought She Met Ed Sheeran
Went To My Local Pub. Two Cute Girls Insisted I Was Andy Samberg. Kept Taking Selfies With Me. Bartender Took This. Best Photo Of Me Ever
Just Chatting It Up With Rod Stewart Himself
Ran Into Chris Pratt
My Dad Thought He Met Will Smith At The World Cup
Johnny Depp Got A Free Hot Dog
Friend Thought He Met Bono At Dreamforce In 2013
Yikes, Bill Murray Isn't Looking Too Good
Oprah Winfrey Was On A Flight
Met Peter Dinklage In Vegas
I Spent An Hour Convincing My Friend (Kick Ass) That We Did Not Meet Johnny Depp
Not Ryan Gosling. Actually Printed In A Magazine
It's Common... To Mistake Somebody For Somebody Else
Sometimes You Gotta Go Back... To Figure Out Who You Weren't Really Drinking With
Meeting Rihanna
That Ain't Me Bro
the best thing ever is when you make a mistake of meeting a celebrity and the actual celebrity comments on your pic!
A Friend Of Mine Thought She Had Met Zach Galifianakis
Life Complete
Girl From My Facebook Feed Swore She Met Macklemore
Former President Bush
That's Not Niall Horan
Um... That's... Not Me
She Met Maklemore. I'm Not Going To Be The One To Tell Her
Just Met Zach Galifianakis
Have ya ever seen one of his movies, Missy? Wear your glasses next time!
Breaking Bad's Hank
These people look NOTHING like the people the other people think they are!
That Time I Thought I Met Lenny Kravitz At Coachella...
No it means you have a life. Hehe. Or have no life and no interest in tv or music. I didn't know the people's names, but I was able to guess they were teen idols, rap artist or in the NBA players case, A basketball star. That man was TALL!
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I'm the opposite. I live in Los Angeles and used to work at a popular beauty store in the mall that celebs would frequent. The amount of times I would help a celebrity with out knowing it, just to have a coworker tell me who they were after, was alarmingly high lol
This would totally be me! I'm so bad with faces and I don't really give a damn if someone's famous or not, that I'd be helping people out without a second glance.
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Seems like sometimes these mistaken identity "celebrities" are nicer to people than perhaps the real ones might be. I remember in pre-selfie days, meeting a very famous footballer of the time in a local bar when he tapped me on the shoulder to borrow a pen to give an autograph to a fan. I asked if i could have one myself and he said "no". Never even got my pen back.
It's pretty funny the running theme in most of the pictures is, "i was drunk and ran in to a celeb." Lol
Do you think it ever happens that two people both think the other one is someone famous, and happily take selfies together? That would be funny.
I would assume most of them are just funny posts for their social media profiles if a similiar thing didn't happen to me 3 years ago. Walking down the street I ran into some (sober) guy in his fifties who mistook me for some semi-famous local singer. And the more I was trying to explain to him I'm not that guy, the more he was like "Oh, of course you are. I watched you perform on TV a few days ago.". Certain
We didn't take a selfie, but it certainly made my day (damn, fix this BP app).
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The funny thing is that the people who arent the celebs agree to take the photo anyways lol
These people mistake them for celebrities'. Mean while I would make the mistake of not even knowing my favorite celebrity. I just walk on by even if it's the real person lol.
Member of Parliament thought he met Russel Crowe, it was Gerard Butler though 10533535_1...6c64a4.jpg 
No it means you have a life. Hehe. Or have no life and no interest in tv or music. I didn't know the people's names, but I was able to guess they were teen idols, rap artist or in the NBA players case, A basketball star. That man was TALL!
Load More Replies... I'm the opposite. I live in Los Angeles and used to work at a popular beauty store in the mall that celebs would frequent. The amount of times I would help a celebrity with out knowing it, just to have a coworker tell me who they were after, was alarmingly high lol
This would totally be me! I'm so bad with faces and I don't really give a damn if someone's famous or not, that I'd be helping people out without a second glance.
Load More Replies... Seems like sometimes these mistaken identity "celebrities" are nicer to people than perhaps the real ones might be. I remember in pre-selfie days, meeting a very famous footballer of the time in a local bar when he tapped me on the shoulder to borrow a pen to give an autograph to a fan. I asked if i could have one myself and he said "no". Never even got my pen back.
It's pretty funny the running theme in most of the pictures is, "i was drunk and ran in to a celeb." Lol
Do you think it ever happens that two people both think the other one is someone famous, and happily take selfies together? That would be funny.
I would assume most of them are just funny posts for their social media profiles if a similiar thing didn't happen to me 3 years ago. Walking down the street I ran into some (sober) guy in his fifties who mistook me for some semi-famous local singer. And the more I was trying to explain to him I'm not that guy, the more he was like "Oh, of course you are. I watched you perform on TV a few days ago.". Certain
We didn't take a selfie, but it certainly made my day (damn, fix this BP app).
Load More Replies... The funny thing is that the people who arent the celebs agree to take the photo anyways lol
These people mistake them for celebrities'. Mean while I would make the mistake of not even knowing my favorite celebrity. I just walk on by even if it's the real person lol.
Member of Parliament thought he met Russel Crowe, it was Gerard Butler though 10533535_1...6c64a4.jpg
