Who is Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Forbes Fierstein (/ˈfaɪərˌstiːn/ FIRE-steen; born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy and Hairspray and movie roles in Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, and as the voice of Yao in Mulan and Mulan II. Fierstein won two Tony Awards, Best Actor in a Play and Best Play, for Torch Song Trilogy. He received his third Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical, for the musical La Cage aux Folles and his fourth, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Fierstein also wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning musicals Kinky Boots, Newsies, and A Catered Affair. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. For his role on the television show Chee...Read Full Biography of Harvey Fierstein
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- Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
- Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
- 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.
- What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
- 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.
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Stillherein2023: harvey fierstein's finest momentShandypockets: an ungodly early flight from freezing cold toronto to philadelphia. it’s a small hopper plane with maybe 10 people. the flight attendant looks and sounds like harvey fierstein and makes flamboyantly sarcastic signs of the cross during the safety briefing...
Aaronnetsky: i've been forgetting the golde verse when i sing it. there's probably something freudian or jungian there... read his memoir. that is all. harvey fierstein: "if i were a rich man" (fiddler on the roof-broadway)
Dontakano: i sound like harvey fierstein doing an impression of ice-t
Mmcclellin: never be bullied into silence. never allow yourself to be made a victim. accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. --harvey fierstein
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