Harvey Fierstein Quotes

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

Harvey Fierstein

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• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Years
  • Old
  • Talk

• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Home
  • Privacy

• I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Good
  • American

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Things

• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
  • Own
  • Ending

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Year
  • Month
  • Looking Forward

• You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Happy

• There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Education

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Book
  • Power
  • Words

• I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Power
  • Me

• I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Like
  • Nobody

• I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • School
  • Seriously

• Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Heaven
  • Build
  • Strenght

• Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Lord
  • Divine
  • Strikes

• While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Party
  • Voice
  • Views

• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Done
  • Evil

• “It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Fate

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

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Voice