Harvey Pekar Quotes

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

I get recognised in town a bit; I wouldn't say it's hindering my life in any way.

It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

I want to be famous.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

I find that people are constantly coming up to me now. There's been a definite surge of people recognizing me and I'm not sure if it has to do with the DVDs or not, but I've sort of assumed that it does because the show has been off the air for three years now.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.

'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.