Andy Richter Quotes

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

It all comes down to who does the dishes.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Making a killer breakfast burrito? I got game. Washing the car? Love it. Doing the dishes? I love it more than washing the car.

There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.

I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

I have lots of older siblings, and as they started to leave the house, I went from cooking once a week to twice, three times, and so on. After a while, it was just like making the bed.

I don't have to make my own bed.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

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!

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.