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 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

• My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

  

  Clara Schumann
  • Life
  • May
  • Health

• Americans have discovered fear.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Fear

• He kept harping about 'What rules don't they know?' And I said, 'The entire rule book is something that they just don't know, that they should know.' He got a little testy about it and he said, 'If you don't like it, hang up' -- which I did.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Up
  • Book
  • Rules

• You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

  

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

• In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Faith
  • Health care

• Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Home
  • Past
  • 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