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You Quotes by Harvey Fierstein
- Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
- It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
- If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
- How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
- The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean,…
- In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
- You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and…
- It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
- What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
- A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.
- Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
- And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
- I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.
- 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…
- But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there…
- But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle,…
- I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's…
- 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…
- I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage…
- In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also…
- 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…
- You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a…
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
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- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide