Famous Quotes

"My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay."

Harvey Fierstein on Family

More quotes about Family

• "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

  LaToya Jackson on Family

• "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

  Abdul Kalam on Family

• "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

  David Ogden Stiers on Family

• "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

  Charles Kuralt on Family

• "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

  Margaret Mead on Family

More quotes by Harvey Fierstein

• "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."