It’s a lot of fun to play someone you don’t normally think of yourself as. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
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 no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely… Warhol. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
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. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
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 colors how you react to doing other things. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
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 work and all of a sudden you’ve got a very full life. Harvey Fierstein Read Quote
