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Harvey Fierstein Quotes
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Type: Actor Quotes Category: American Actor Quotes Date of Birth: June 6, 1954 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Harvey Fierstein Related Authors: Will Rogers Jack Nicholson Orson Welles Richard Pryor Dirk Benedict Harrison Ford Denzel Washington Don Johnson |
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey Fierstein Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise. Harvey Fierstein Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it. Harvey Fierstein And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television. Harvey Fierstein 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 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 How time files when you's doin' all the talking. Harvey Fierstein 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 I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God. Harvey Fierstein I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active. Harvey Fierstein 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 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. Harvey Fierstein 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 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 If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life? Harvey Fierstein In London they don't like you if you're still alive. Harvey Fierstein 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 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 It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. Harvey Fierstein It's through sheer will that I can sing. Harvey Fierstein 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 Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein Political movements always belong to the young. Harvey Fierstein Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973. Harvey Fierstein 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 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 The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. Harvey Fierstein There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. Harvey Fierstein Time will tell us what we did and didn't do. Harvey Fierstein 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 To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky. Harvey Fierstein Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out. Harvey Fierstein What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. Harvey Fierstein 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 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 You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theatre 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 |
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