Harvey Fierstein Quotes - Page 4

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• I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Different, Use

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• Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Thinking, Average, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Writing, Voice, People

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• I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Mean, Night, Let It Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Father, House, Actors

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• In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

  Harvey Fierstein

  Silence, Definitions, Way

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

  Harvey Fierstein

  People, Theatre, Want

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• I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

  Harvey Fierstein

  Couple, Years, People

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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.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Writing, Acting, Shows

  "How we made ... Harvey Fierstein and Antony Sher on Torch Song Trilogy". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2012.

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