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Harvey Fierstein Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1954

Topics

Character Romantic Personality You

The thematically related 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Brokeback Mountain' reinforced the narrative that gays like Mr. Shepard are regularly isolated for cruel and unusual attacks.

Andrew Breitbart

Mountain Cry Narrative Cruel Unusual

Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it.

Robert Redford

Grateful Me Society Think American

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Matthew Quick

Good Luck Good Luck Book Thought Up

I've had lots of good advice.

Ann Richards

Good Advice Good Advice Lots Had

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Alone Lonely You Bad Company

I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music.

John Tesh

Love Music Writing Christian Artists

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Amanda Burton

Attitude Stupid Country Personal

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

Nature Passion People Energy Busy

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

Ronald Perelman

Night Dirty Hot Miserable Factory

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

Ross Lovegrove

People Fashion Bad Say Meet Groovy

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth Truth Is Better Doubt Than

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.

Arnold Palmer

Fear Money Fly Flying Better Early