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Harvey Fierstein

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

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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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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Harvey Fierstein
"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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Harvey Fierstein
"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
"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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Harvey Fierstein
"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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Harvey Fierstein
"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."

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Harvey Fierstein
"It's through sheer will that I can sing."

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Harvey Fierstein
"The world is full of more interesting things than my voice."

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