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Harvey Fierstein Quotes
Harvey Fierstein Quotes
Harvey Fierstein
American
Actor
Born:
Jun 6
,
1954
Always
Life
People
Time
Work
You
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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
Life
Silence
Yourself
Made
Victim
Define
Definition
Allow
Never
Accept
Bullied
Your
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
Positive
Good
Prayer
World
Positive Energy
Care
Power
Energy
Believe
Other
Out
Taking
Putting
Connected
Each
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
Legal
Marriage
Value
Judgment
Nothing
Meeting
Minds
Those
Harvey
Moral
Religious
Civil
Entities
Rite
Between
Steve
Parties
Period
Contract
Act
Eve
Even
Agreement
Adam
Adam And Eve
Consenting
Two
In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Harvey Fierstein
You
Alive
London
Like
Still
I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
Harvey Fierstein
You
Tomorrow
Out
Something
Put
Performance
New
Am
Go
Person
Theater
Really
Means
Night
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
Be Nice
Diversity
Before
Nice
Ourselves
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Bad Thing
Take
Drowning
Redefine
Going
Just
While
Moment
Thing
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey Fierstein
Kiss
Else
Would
Magic
Stingy
Child
Them
Why
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
Time
Lover
Everything
Musical
Broadway
Out
Would
See
Magazine
Had
Hairspray
Come
Wrote
Call
Because
Got
Audition
Doing
Came
Were
Familiar
Movie
Regular
Premiere
It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
Harvey Fierstein
You
Yourself
Think
Someone
Lot
Normally
Fun
Play
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Harvey Fierstein
Noise
Think
Percent
Voice
Like
Average
Actually
Tone
The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.
Harvey Fierstein
World
More
Voice
Than
Interesting
Interesting Things
Full
Things
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
Work
Other
Definitely
Some
He
Stuff
Him
Did
Rabbit
Warhol
Then
Worked
Less
Play
Actually
Things
Portrait
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
Life
Love
You
Same Thing
Exact
Week
Performance
Over
Days
Because
Doing
Same
Going
Six
Six Days
Eight
Theater
Again
To Love
Really
Thing
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
Character
Failure
You
Song
Made
Other
Torch
Some
Colors
Had
Almost
Until
React
Also
Non-Stop
How
Doing
Did
Movie
Which
Then
Things
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
Change
Thought
Sex
AIDS
Characters
Critics
About
Had
No-One
Picked
Safe
Untrue
Talked
Because
How
Going
Which
Apart
Lives
Play
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
Life
Work
You
People
Year
Other
Musical
Plus
Written
Concert
Got
Very
May
Next
Full
Full Life
Next Year
Sudden
Star
Actually
Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
Harvey Fierstein
Lesbian
Out
About
Looked
Well
Always
Coming
Movie
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
Harvey Fierstein
Way
Perceived
Take
Because
Times
Roles
Want
Certain
Certain Way
I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
Harvey Fierstein
Stress
Active
Enough
Kids
See
Thrilled
Am
Getting
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
Me
Gay
Youth
Important
Setting
Heterosexual
Agenda
Then
Who
Now
Right
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
Work
Angry
You
People
AIDS
Out
Give
Nobody
Couple
Still
Go
Were
Years
Get
Did
Disease
Getting
Burned
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
News
Phone
Smart
Yesterday
Speeds
Photos
Potential
Well
Traditional
Cameraman
Reporting
Anyone
Stories
Turn
Transmitting
Capturing
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
Family
World
Disagree
Father
Everything
Sideways
Okay
Inside
Brought
Could
Factory
Factory Worker
Outside
He
Looked
House
Him
Became
Because
Said
His
Up
Against
Us
Worker
Actor
Orphanage
Drag
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
Faith
Me
Crazy
You
People
Speak
Be True
First
Before
Mouth
President
President Obama
Response
Obama
Would
All The Facts
Seems
Facts
He
True
Likes
Him
Makes
His
Lot
Off
Very
Expect
Get
Shoots
Measured
Thing
Things
I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
Harvey Fierstein
Politics
Rule
Something
Put
Like
Spotlight
Just
I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.
Harvey Fierstein
Faith
Great
Country
Live
States
Great Faith
Would
Only
Only Country
United
Ever
United States
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