Harvey Fierstein Quotes

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Harvey Fierstein

Writing, Thought, Acting

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

Two, Actually, Voice

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

Different, Through, 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, May

I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
Harvey Fierstein

Stress, Enough, Kids

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
Harvey Fierstein

Somebody, Worthy, Passes

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
Harvey Fierstein

Home, Today, Lovely

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, Everything, Movie

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

Work, Nice, Hard

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

Different, Pretty, Between

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Commitment

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

Failure, Character, Made

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
Harvey Fierstein

Fun, Yourself, Someone

It's through sheer will that I can sing.
Harvey Fierstein

Through, Sing, Sheer

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
Harvey Fierstein

Movies, Story, Ideas

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, Father, Everything

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
Harvey Fierstein

Hanging, Factory, Pork

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, Him, Play

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
Harvey Fierstein

Movies, Heart, Theater

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
Harvey Fierstein

Times, Perceived, Roles

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Time, Lucky

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

Change, Fall, Looks

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

Romantic, Character, Often

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

May, Child, Seize

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 6, 1954

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