Joyce Brabner Quotes in American Splendor (2003)

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.

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

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

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

Joyce Brabner: I'm a self-diagnosed anemic.

[During Harvey & Joyce's first date]

Joyce Brabner: I think we should skip the 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.