John Waters Quotes - Page 5

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• I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

  John Waters

  Tattoo, Anchors, Desire

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.

  John Waters

  Years, Careers, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to think of a new way to completely surprise people who think they're hip. I always said you could make an NC-17 movie with no sex and no violence. Now I don't know what that could possibly be, but if you could think it up, you'd have a hit.

  John Waters

  Thinking, People, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.

  John Waters

  Night, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

  John Waters

  Successful, Two, Years

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

  John Waters

  Kids, Drug, Dealer

  "The People's Pervert" by Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

  John Waters

  Believe, Bullshit, Cop

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• I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

  John Waters

  Love, Life, Witty

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Dec. 14-20)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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• Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

  John Waters

  Hangover, Two, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.

  John Waters

  Giving, Interviews, Feels

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• It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

  John Waters

  Editing, Years, Leather Jackets

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

  John Waters

  Trying, Lasts, Next

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• I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

  John Waters

  Who I Am, Today, Lsd

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.

  John Waters

  People, Workaholic, Share

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• What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

  John Waters

  Pride, Important, Needs

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• The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

  John Waters

  Art, Mean, Counter Culture

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• I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Interesting, Extremes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.

  John Waters

  Art, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

  John Waters

  Cities, Film, Made

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

  John Waters

  Mother, Valentine, Heart

  "INTERVIEW : He Really Can't Help Himself : Shockingly eccentric writer-director John Waters offers yet another look at the gruesome with his new film, 'Serial Mom.' It stacks up nicely against his cult faves 'Pink Flamingos' and 'Mondo Trasho'". Interview with James Grant, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 1994.

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• If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

  John Waters

  Art, Trying, World

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

  John Waters

  Home, Wish, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.

  John Waters

  Running, People, Car

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

  John Waters

  People, Trying, Rich

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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