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John Waters
23 quotes
“Animal rights acitivists always say to me, "How could you kill a chicken for a movie?" Well, I eat chicken and I know the chicken didn't land on my plate from a heart attack. We bought the chicken from a farmer who advertised freshly killed chicken. I think we made the chicken's life better. It got to be in a movie, it got fucked, and then right after filming the next take, the cast ate the chicken!”
John Waters (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?”
John Waters (born 1946) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From 6/28/2010 Colbert Report
“To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.”
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“I've always tried to push things to the limit, but when I started, the censors to be feared were old, conservative, religious men, whereas today the censors are young, rich, liberal men who seem to be against the freedom of expression I fought for. [...] people should be able to have an opinion they don't agree with and still be friends, have a dialogue, or argue about it.”
John Waters (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're husky, we're hairy, we're homosexual, and out of the second closet.”
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“And we can cuddle all night!”
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“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.”
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“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
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“I would never want to film hard-core pornography, because it always looks like open-heart surgery to me.”
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“[I] pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.”
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“How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.”
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“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”
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“I'll never be able to do a sequel to Pink Flamingos because it would have to end with Divine taking a shit and the dog eating it.”
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“Parents should worry if their children haven't been arrested by the time they turn sixteen. Being a juvenile delinquent is a birthright and as much a part of healthy adolescence as smoking cigarettes or getting pimples.”
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“I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be.”
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“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore... It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. No one moves here.”
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“I stopped taking drugs when I realized that pot smelled bad and LSD trips were becoming like TV reruns. I had had enough inner journeys — I felt I knew myself well enough, thank you.”
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“All people look better under arrest.”
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“Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.”
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“Cheer up. You never know — maybe something awful will happen tomorrow.”
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“If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
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“We watched everything...A family favorite was Cry-Baby starring Johnny Depp. Whenever the John Waters film broke out in song, we would all scream and start singing, too.”
John Waters (born 1946) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ilhan Omar This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)
“Waters might, once upon a time, have been a candidate to be the American Buñuel, especially when he had the raw hatred of Divine under his command...”
John Waters (born 1946) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, .