Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
Harvey Fierstein

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
Harvey Fierstein

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
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

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

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