488 Quotes by John Waters

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I’m doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don’t have a personal life I feel bad for you.

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.

I didn’t become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn’t a battle of what came first. They went together like “love and marriage, horse and carriage!”

You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn’t know what he’s doing either. But it comes out kind of good.

I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It’s a different way to have fun.

I’m trying to do of a certain attitude in life. I’m against separatism. I’m for everyone to gather. I’m for everyone lunatic to hang out together. I want to hear somebody else’s bad night, not just mine.

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they’re taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it’s normal to kneel down to a naked man who’s nailed to a cross? It’s like a bad leather bar.

I haven’t committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.