Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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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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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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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
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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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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
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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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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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Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?
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Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.
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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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Political movements always belong to the young.
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Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
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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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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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A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
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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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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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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 musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
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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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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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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!