Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
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There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.
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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.
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As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.
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Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
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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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Political movements always belong to the young.
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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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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
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The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.
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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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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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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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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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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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A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
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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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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
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Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
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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.
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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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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
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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.