John Waters Quotes

John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.

✵ 22. April 1946
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Famous John Waters Quotes

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

John Waters

Variant: [W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
Source: Role Models

John Waters Quotes about life

“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

John Waters Quotes

“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”

John Waters

Source: Role Models

“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”

John Waters

Source: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

“There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.”

John Waters

Source: Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays

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

John Waters

From 6/28/2010 Colbert Report

“Cheer up. You never know — maybe something awful will happen tomorrow.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“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

David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, ISBN 0-375-41128-3.
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“All people look better under arrest.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“I would never want to film hard-core pornography, because it always looks like open-heart surgery to me.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?”

John Waters

I always wonder.
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“[I] pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.”

John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

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