When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this ones too tall and that one doesnt have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – theres a billion reasons not to hire somebody. – Harvey Fierstein
The great thing about suicide is that its not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later. – Harvey Fierstein
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies dont. – Harvey Fierstein
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if its story heavy, its about ideas. – Harvey Fierstein
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. – Abraham Lincoln