Quotes from Harvey Fierstein

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.

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.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

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

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

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.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

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.