Harvey Fierstein quotes - page 2

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. (Harvey Fierstein)
I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active. View quote
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My play Safe Sex 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973. View quote
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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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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. (Harvey Fierstein)
While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice. View quote
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You'd probably just lost your virginity, I'd probably just lost count. View quote
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I live in a small fictional town in Connecticut. View quote
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Do you remember at the presidential convention where they nominated Bush? Did you know what song they played to bring Bush on stage? No. "The Best of Times” from La Cage aux Folles. I said some fag pulled a fast one on them! View quote
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Now they know who we are. We're counted in their surveys, we're numbered in their watchfulness, we're powered in their press. We're courted, polled, placated. Now they know that we're teachers and doctors and lawyers and priests and mothers and babies. Now they see us everywhere. Hospitals, theatres, classrooms. Obituaries. Now when they tell lies about us, we answer back. We found our voices. We know who we are. They know who we are. And they know that we care what they think. View quote
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. View quote
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A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's through sheer will that I can sing. (Harvey Fierstein)
How time files when you's doin' all the talking. View quote
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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