Quotes by Harvey Fierstein

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it’s a – knock wood – hit, the checks come in for many years.

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 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.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.