Harvey Fierstein Quotes

American - Actor | June 6, 1954 -

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

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I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

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How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

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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.

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