Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
From Harvey Fierstein
You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
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.
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.
Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
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.
Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
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