Harvey Fierstein Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodTimePeopleVoiceEnoughHelp

Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

John Byrne

Getting OlderYouStopNothingBus

I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?

Jenny Slate

LifeChangeSpeakSomeoneYouWay

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Robert McFarlane

AloneFaceDoingYouStopThrough

If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

Anita Borg

WomenFutureTechnologyGreatPlace

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Alvin Toffler

ChangeTechnologyGreatEngine

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

Sophia Amoruso

FreeLivingWayShortcutsHard

For eight years, all I cared about was track.

Michelle Wolf

YearsTrackEightAboutCared

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

Michael Mandelbaum

GovernmentWorldNobodyOutUnited

I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing.

Douglas Booth

FriendDayAmazingSaidOne DaySaw

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

Anne Lamott

PresentForeverLastsThenReally

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Peter Bart

PastInterestingSummerMoviesTop

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Mark Leyner

FunThinkInterestingTrySomething

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