Harvey fierstein

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere...

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

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.

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

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.

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 have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

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