Harvey Fierstein Quotes

• I assume everyone is gay, unless told otherwise.

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• You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you’re responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

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• Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don’t.

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• My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn’t there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

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• Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it’s story heavy, it’s about ideas.

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• I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it’s a – knock wood – hit, the checks come in for many years.

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• I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That’s rewarding.

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• I don’t believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it’s worthy of note.

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• As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows – maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

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• Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

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• Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well… yesterday’s news.

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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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• Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don’t, or they wouldn’t have to say they did.

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• Always admit when you’re wrong. You’ll save thousands in therapy… and a few friendships too.

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• It’s a wonderful world. You can’t go backwards. You’re always moving forward. It’s the wonderful part about life. And that’s terrific.

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• Accept no one’s definition of your life. Define yourself.

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• You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre because it is an unmerciful life. It’s six days a week. It’s eight performances a week. And that’s doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

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• You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it’s a role that’s underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

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• When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one’s too tall and that one doesn’t have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – there’s a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

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• 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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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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