27 Quotes By Harvey Fierstein


Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Harvey Fierstein on art

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

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 on change

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 on change

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 on failure

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 on family

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

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 on good

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 on great

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

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 on life

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 on movies

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

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

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 on positive

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 on power

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Harvey Fierstein on power

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 on romantic

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
Harvey Fierstein on time

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
Harvey Fierstein on time