Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogyand the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth6 June 1954
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.
It's through sheer will that I can sing.
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.
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
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 take charge of it.
Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Political movements always belong to the young.
The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.