Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
More Quotes from Harvey Fierstein:
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
In this Duplex picture it's a role where it looks like I have nothing to do with the plot, and then there's a twist, so it's fun.
Harvey Fierstein
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
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
Harvey Fierstein
I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
Harvey Fierstein
To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
Harvey Fierstein
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W. Somerset Maugham
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden