John Waters
John Waters
John Samuel Waters, Jr.is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living, Waters began casting real-life convicted criminalsand controversial people...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 April 1946
rotten life-is lottery
Life is a rotten lottery.
love life witty
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
agents censorship whole-life
Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.
hipster life-is obsessed
Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.
good-life believe hands
I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.
life-is obsession
Without obsession, life is nothing.
good-life book reading
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.
bad entertainment taste
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about
people understand water
People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.
challenge court taken tv
Now it's on Court TV in America, so that's taken the challenge out of it,
building people
The thing I wanted to do was show that it's about the people that come in this building every day.
beyond bravery caught coming glamour great humor
Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You couldn't come out. It was illegal. But he had a sense of humor about the glamour he was caught in. He's a great sport, and a great star.
Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?
asks brand buy christmas exact model numbers prepared sells store type
Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.