John Waters quotes

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. (John Waters)
How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?
John Waters
To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.
John Waters
Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.
John Waters
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
John Waters
[I] pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
John Waters
Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing.
John Waters
I would never want to film hard-core pornography, because it always looks like open-heart surgery to me.
John Waters
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore... It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. No one moves here.
John Waters
Waters might, once upon a time, have been a candidate to be the American Buñuel, especially when he had the raw hatred of Divine under his command...
John Waters
I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be. (John Waters)
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.
John Waters
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.
John Waters
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.
John Waters
True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
John Waters
My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.
John Waters
Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.
John Waters
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.
John Waters
Cheer up. You never know - maybe something awful will happen tomorrow.
John Waters
Parents should worry if their children haven't been arrested by the time they turn sixteen. Being a juvenile delinquent is a birthright and as much a part of healthy adolescence as smoking cigarettes or getting pimples.
John Waters
Life is nothing without a good sense of humor. (John Waters)
To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
John Waters
All people look better under arrest.
John Waters
I stopped taking drugs when I realized that pot smelled bad and LSD trips were becoming like TV reruns. I had had enough inner journeys - I felt I knew myself well enough, thank you.
John Waters
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
John Waters