Harvey Fierstein Quotes

• I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you – you have to go out and get it!

  Harvey Fierstein

• I am thrilled – I can’t stress that enough – thrilled when I see kids getting active.

  Harvey Fierstein

• I actually pray everyday, but I don’t believe in God.

  Harvey Fierstein

• I actually may do a musical next year… not one that I’ve written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people’s work and all of a sudden you’ve got a very full life.

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• How time files when you’s doin’ all the talking.

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• But I’m not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

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• But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It’s a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

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• And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

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• Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

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• Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

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• A child’s kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

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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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