Harvey Fierstein Quotes

• What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don’t change.

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• Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

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• To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

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• To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it’s important to the gay youth – who are now setting the agenda – then its important to me.

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• Time will tell us what we did and didn’t do.

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• There are times when I don’t take roles because I don’t want to be perceived a certain way.

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• The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

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• The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

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• So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely… Warhol.

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• Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

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• Political movements always belong to the young.

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• My play Safe S*x was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

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• It’s through sheer will that I can sing.

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• It’s a lot of fun to play someone you don’t normally think of yourself as.

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• It would be nice to redefine ourselves – at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That’s not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

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• In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

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• In London they don’t like you if you’re still alive.

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• If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

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• I’m sure there’s going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.

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• I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

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Harvey Fierstein (52)

Birth:	6th June, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Playwright

About

Harvey Forbes Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American actor and playwright. He has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. His role in several films include: Garbo Talks, Torch Song Trilogy, Mrs. Doubtfire, Bullets over Broadway, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Independence Day, Kull the Conqueror, Double Platinum, Playing Mona Lisa, and Duplex. He has written several plays include: Torch Song Trilogy, Safe Sex, and Casa Valentina. He has written films, Torch Song Trilogy.

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