Harvey Fierstein
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"Harvey Forbes Fierstein" is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor.

Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay Drag queen/drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray (musical)/Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles (musical)/La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots (musical)/Kinky Boots. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.

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A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

With her understanding of 'Fiddler's' important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

As a 20-year friend of Rosie's, I couldn't be happier that we will finally share a stage together, ... With her understanding of Fiddler's important place in theatrical history, I am positive she will uphold that tradition excitingly.

If you don't look, you don't know.