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People that pick up hitchhikers I believe are basically good people that believe in other people and understand problems and don't judge people. That's always the kind of person I'm looking for.
John Waters
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Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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I've always tried to keep reinventing myself and to keep appealing to young people and when I go to colleges now and do my spoken-word show it's astounding to me how I get older and the audience gets younger. To me, that's the best compliment. That's better than money, that's better than anything.
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Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.
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It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
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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.
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A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.
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There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.
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I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that I've got to do one thing before I die. I did it.
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I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.
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Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.
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I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.
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I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
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I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.
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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.
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As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.
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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.
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So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
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Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.
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