John Waters Quotes

I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.

John Waters

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• I want to be judged on my own merits.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Want
  • Own
  • My Own

• Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Actor

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Work
  • Love
  • Language

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • People
  • Walking

• The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Today

• No, [as a child I didn't feel like a refugee] at all. I remember my German wasn't that good yet when I was in primary school and because of that, maybe I wasn't as well-integrated as other children. But when I went to primary school this was no longer the case. It was only much later, when I was 15, 16, that I visited Romania again for the first time. This was when I asked myself questions: Why am I the way I am? How much about me is German, which things about me are Romanian?

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.

  

  John Waters
  • Good
  • Family
  • Uncle