John Waters Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

• You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

  John Waters

  School, Should Have, Want

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

  John Waters

  School, Nodding, Heroin

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

  John Waters

  Revenge, School, Thinking

• Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

  John Waters

  Song, School, Men

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

  John Waters

  Home, School, Perfectly Normal

• What's fascinating to me is that in rich-kid schools, it's better to be gay. No one is discriminated against because they're gay in a rich-kid school. But in poor-kid schools, it's often not the same. So being gay is a class issue now.

  John Waters

  School, Gay, Being Gay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

  John Waters

  School, Careers, Discouraged

  "An interview with filmmaker-provocateur John Waters". Interview with John Monaghan, www.freep.com. February 11, 2015.

• I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.

  John Waters

  School, Gay, College

• Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.

  John Waters

  School, People, House

  Source: www.timeout.com

• I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

  John Waters

  School, World, Paychecks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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