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To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Harvey Fierstein

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Harvey Fierstein
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein
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When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
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It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
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How time files when you's doin' all the talking.
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I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.
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CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
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I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
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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
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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
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How time flies when you're doin all the talking.
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Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion
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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 week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
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