John Waters Quotes
They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
-
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
-
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
-
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
-
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
-
We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
-
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
-
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
-
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
-
When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
-
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
-
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
-
Police can only act on intelligence.
-
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
-
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
-
Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
-
I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
-
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
-
If you knew someone who was terminally ill and in grave pain, would you participate in an assisted suicide? I would.
-
The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.
-
Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
-
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
-
They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.
