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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 Trilogy and 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. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. June 1954
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Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy
Harvey Fierstein
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Famous Harvey Fierstein Quotes

“I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!”

Harvey Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy

Source: Torch Song Trilogy

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

Harvey Fierstein

“You’d probably just lost your virginity, I’d probably just lost count.”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995), Safe Sex

“See, I went to an all-gay high school. Art and Design. Now the truth is it wasn’t really all gay, but they bused them in, it was the law. […] So I went to this high school, I had friends like Pablo. Pablo used to breast-feed a porcelain doll during math. You know. My friend Lauren used to roll cigarettes on her boots.”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

“To the delight of millions of little children, the Santa in New York's great parade will be half of a same-sex couple. And guess who the other half will be? Me! Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery portraying the one and only Mrs. Claus.”

Harvey Fierstein

Quoted in Mark J. Terrill, "'Hairspray' drag queen to play Mrs. Claus at Macy's parade," http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-11-27-parade-mrs-claus_x.htm Associated Press (2003-11-27)

“Hello, boys. How are you all? I just love boys. […] Hello. Are you here alone? Who are you with? …A woman? At my show? …We'll make believe. It's theatre.”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

Harvey Fierstein Quotes

“I live in a small fictional town in Connecticut.”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

“Do you remember at the presidential convention where they nominated Bush? Did you know what song they played to bring Bush on stage? No. “The Best of Times” from La Cage aux Folles. I said some fag pulled a fast one on them!”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

Time

“Now they know who we are. We’re counted in their surveys, we’re numbered in their watchfulness, we’re powered in their press. We’re courted, polled, placated. Now they know that we’re teachers and doctors and lawyers and priests and mothers and babies. Now they see us everywhere. Hospitals, theatres, classrooms. Obituaries. Now when they tell lies about us, we answer back. We found our voices. We know who we are. They know who we are. And they know that we care what they think.”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995), Safe Sex

Thinking , Teachers , Baby

“We had great sex, but we argued politics. […] Now we enjoy politics and argue sex.”

Harvey Fierstein

This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995), Safe Sex

Sex

“I’ve been travelling a lot. My boyfriend and I, we just went to Santa Fe. You know, the one named after the gay saint. Has anybody ever been to Santa Fe? …did you know it was a desert? I didn’t know it was a desert. Hated it! People had been telling me for years, if you’re an artist, a non-conformist, come to Santa Fe! I mean, it’s the place you can be yourself! The light, the light, you can paint here! You can live here, the space, the sky! – The fucking dust! I was doing an AIDS benefit there – like what else do I do with my life?”

Harvey Fierstein

and I said, look, I’m a guest here, you’re paying for the hotel, I don’t mean to insult nobody, but I got a little suggestion for you. If I was yaz, I’d take a hose, hook it up to Colorado, and water this fucking place!
This Is Not Going to Be Pretty, Live at the Bottom Line (1995)

Hate , Painting , Light , People

“Bertha: You have a high voice for a lesbian!”

Harvey Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy

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