Harvey Pekar Quotes

I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?

I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!

I like small, domestic stories.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

People want to imagine that I have this amazing life. That I never change nappies, unload the dishwasher or have to wait in for the plumber, and that's OK, but the reality is I do do all these things!

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

I have a fairly normal domestic life.

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

I'm just a battler making an honest buck who goes home to his missus and his dog at the end of the day.

I love being with my family and just being a regular person.