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Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

John Waters

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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.
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I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.
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I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.
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My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.
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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 don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
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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.
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Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.
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True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
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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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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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Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.
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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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People vomitied at my movies not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
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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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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.
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