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Harvey Fierstein

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

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Donna Grant

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

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Donna Grant

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

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Donna Grant

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

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Donna Grant

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

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Donna Grant

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

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Donna Grant

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

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Donna Grant

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

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Donna Grant

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

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Harvey Fierstein
"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."

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"I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active."

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Harvey Fierstein
"Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise."

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

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"I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different."

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Harvey Fierstein
"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!"

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Harvey Fierstein
"But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs."

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

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

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