So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
John WatersWealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.
John WatersThe only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
John WatersI don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
John WatersIf you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.
John Waters