American Splendor (2003)

Hope Davis: Joyce Brabner

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Quotes 

• Joyce Brabner : Hi, Harvey. We finally meet in person.

  Harvey Pekar : Look, before we get started with any of this, you might as well know right off the bat. I had a vasectomy.

• Joyce Brabner : Why does everything in my life have to be such a complicated disaster?

• Harvey Pekar : Wow, you're a sick woman.

  Joyce Brabner : Not yet, but I expect to be.

• Joyce Brabner : Harvey, may I have a glass of water and an aspirin?

  Harvey Pekar : Why, do you have a headache?

  Joyce Brabner : No, but I want to avoid getting one.

• Joyce Brabner : I'm a self-diagnosed anaemic.

• [During Harvey & Joyce's first date] 

  Joyce Brabner : Harvey, we better skip this whole courtship thing and just get married.

• Harvey Pekar : You don't have any problems with moving to Cleveland?

  Joyce Brabner : Not really. I find most American cities to be depressing in the same way.

  Harvey Pekar : And you're OK with the vasectomy thing?

• Harvey Pekar : So... what are you worried about then?

  Joyce Brabner : Well, it's the way... it's the way all the different artists draw you.

  Harvey Pekar : What?

  Joyce Brabner : You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.

  Harvey Pekar : No, those are motion lines. I'm an active guy!

• Joyce Brabner : We are going to get through this. I understand illness. I know how to handle these things.

• Joyce Brabner : I'll have you know that I come from a very dysfunctional family. I can spot personality disorders a mile away.