Rick Harrison Quotes

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

In Camden, it's just the atmosphere that gets me. It's simple. It's nice. It's real. And it's the people, too. I like to interact with them because they are normal and I am normal. People probably don't expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, basically, be a normal guy.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

I'm just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don't really know that I'm just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

I'm not a person who comes with bodyguards. I'm a simple jhola-kurta kind of girl. So people treat me as a buddy.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

I am an ordinary person.

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather settle for people thinking that I'm a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That's one reason I've been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.