488 Quotes by John Waters

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is.

I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.

My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was.

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob.

'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out.

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.