Harvey Fierstein Quotes

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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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Language

• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • House
  • Woman
  • Write

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Forest

• Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • True
  • Girl
  • Friendship

• No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Fear

• Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Man
  • Professional

• I have actually been very fortunate that I've met a lot of really wonderful straight men in my life - and a lot of really wonderful gay men in my life.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Life
  • Men
  • Gay

• I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Prince

• The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

  

  Drew Barrymore

• Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

  

  John Boehner
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment

• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Great
  • Pride

• Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection Empörung leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hopes on 'institutions.'

  

  Max Stirner
  • Revolution

• If you like somebody's work - just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people came and asked me for my autograph - and it's creepy. What I did is read everything they published first... and correct them. That's what they really want. Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• If my energy was fake, then I would feel pressured, because I gotta, like, keep this up. I thank God it's just how I am. But I find myself wanting to work on being more comfortable in the silence with people.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I also learned that a male is a bull and the baby is a calf.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • Baby
  • MAle
  • Calf

• I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Smoke
  • Heat
  • Palm

• Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Actors
  • Ends
  • Snow

• I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Life
  • Important
  • Faith

• Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Theater