488 Quotes by John Waters

I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world – just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines – my fans all look the same in all those cities – they look great!

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don’t say anything and you don’t know they know who you are.

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? “Axis of Evil”? Come on. “A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain” is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There’s no such thing as a good long joke.

I’m so lucky to be having a happy childhood as an adult.

I haven’t changed – the public has. I’m an insider now, which is hilarious.

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.

Anyone from my past I’m interested in, I’ve already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.