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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.
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.
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Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
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Once I had a shrink who said, Your parents are the fuel you run on, because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.
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I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!
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Contemporary art hates you.
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I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.
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And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
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I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].
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I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don't listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.
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I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.
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I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.
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Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
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It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.
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I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.
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I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.
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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.
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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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My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.
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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.
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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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