I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
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Harvey Fierstein
Profession:
Actor
Born:
June 6, 1954
Nationality:
American
Quotes by Harvey Fierstein
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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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Harvey Fierstein
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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Harvey Fierstein
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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Harvey Fierstein
Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
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A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
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I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
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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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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
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Political movements always belong to the young.
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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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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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To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Harvey Fierstein
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
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I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't speak when you would expect him to speak. He's very measured in his response to things. He likes to get all the facts first before he shoots his mouth off. It makes me crazy; it makes a lot of people crazy.
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
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Harvey Fierstein
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
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Harvey Fierstein
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.
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A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
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I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
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Harvey Fierstein
When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
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I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.
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I've been dating since I was 15 years old, and I just don't seem to do it well.
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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.
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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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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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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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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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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!
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Harvey Fierstein
I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.
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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.
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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
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Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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Harvey Fierstein
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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How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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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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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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