Quotes by Harvey Fierstein - Page 2

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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Backwards
Moving
Moving Forward
Terrific
Wonderful
World
Life Always World
Go
Part
Life World Always
Forward
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Care
People
Want
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You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Children
One Day
Powerless
Responsible
Seize The Day
Child
World Day Feel
Charge
Seize
Yours
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Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Heavy
Plot
Resonate
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Chance
Mean
Suicidal
Suicide
Now
Great Thing
Later
Lose
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Diversity
Drowning
Nice
Would Be
Bad Thing
Be Nice
Moment
Redefine
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In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Definitions
Silence
Way
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I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Eight
Nice
Play
Writing
Check
Wood
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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Character
Color
Non Stop
Song
Colors
React
Torch
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Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Mean
Thinking
Yesterday
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Agendas
Gay
Important
Setting
Youth
Heterosexual
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CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Doors
Gay
Stars
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Full Life
Musical
Next Year
People
Plus
Stars
Years
Life Work People
Concert
Life Work May
Sudden
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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!
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Aids
Angry
Burned
Couple
Disease
People
Years
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Aids
Character
Critics
Play
Safe
Sex
Untrue
Apart
Characters
Picked
Talked
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So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Play
Portraits
Rabbits
Warhol
Portrait
Rabbit
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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Phones
Smart
Yesterday
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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Cameraman
News
Smart
Stories
Traditional
Yesterday
Capturing
Phone
Potential
Reporting
Speeds
Transmitting
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I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Men
Taste
Trying
World
Settle
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I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Different
Song
Use
Introduce
Material
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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Adverse
Ideas
Musical
Play
Song
Be Different
Just Be
Torch
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Character
Needs
Personality
Character Actor
Fill
Leads
Obviously
Offered
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Eight
Six
Theater
Week
Life Love Doing
Exact
Performance
Same Thing
Six Days
To Love
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Raised
Responding
Song
Steps
Voice
Yesterday
Muscle
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I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Movie
Actors
Auditions
Broadway
Familiar
Hairspray
Musical
Audition
Time Doing See
Lover
Magazine
Premiere
Regular
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
African American
Prejudice
President
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
African American
Divides
Prejudice
Streets
Elect
Let Us
Pat
Practicing
Proudly
Racial
Remain
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When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
America
Backlash
Canada
Gay
Response
Roles
Fiddler
Openly
Review
Seemed
Suggested
Toured
Wondered
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Good People
People
Voice
Writing
Time Good Enough
Billion
Time Good Voice
Hire
Match
Reasons
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With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Country
Gay
Winter
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce since Eve was his second wife.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Divorce
Rights
Wife
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Marriage
Adam
Bible
Divorce
Property
Property Rights
Rights
Wife
Contract
Eve
Second
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I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Death
Absurd
Buddhist
Different
Exposed
Indian
Reading
Spiritual
Temples
Thinking
Whole
Life Time Thinking
Life Time Death
Feel
After
Lots
Beliefs
Idea
Life Death Time
Cultures
Religions
Period
Over
Mix
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My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Actors
Disagree
Drag
Father
House
Okay
Orphanage
Said
Sideways
Inside
Against
Actor
Family World Father
Became
Worker
Brought
Factory
Factory Worker
Looked
Outside
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Faith
Crazy
Likes
People
President
President Obama
Response
Seems
Speak
Me Crazy People
Faith Me People
Obama
All The Facts
Be True
Expect
Measured
Mouth
Shoots
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State sanctioned marriage is a civil contract period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Agreement
Party
Religious
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State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Legal
Adam
Adam And Eve
Agreement
Harvey
Judgment
Moral
Religious
Rite
Two
Nothing
Act
Between
Those
Civil
Consenting
Contract
Period
Entities
Eve
Meeting
Minds
Parties
Steve
Value
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Gay
Law
Sacrifice
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When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Bias
Defining
Denied
Equal
Equal Protection
Exclusion
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Legislation
Politician
Pragmatic
Protection
Reform
Sacrifice
Unfairness
Admit
Attack
Gays
Insure
Policies
Solely
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The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Arrows
Hate
Real
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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.
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Book
Knowing
Stars
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To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein / Actor
Attitude
Commitment
Goal
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