To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble. — John Waters Copy Share Image
At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the… — John Waters Copy Share Image
It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them. — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Why is Mommy crying?” the young boy asks his dad, all sugared up and bewildered with concern. “Because you’re an asshole,” barks… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out. — John Waters Copy Share Image
If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was. — John Waters Copy Share Image
My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a little drama in my family because I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother. — John Waters Copy Share Image
If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house; they haven't seen you for two months.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it… — John Waters Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely. — John Waters Copy Share Image
When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages. — John Waters Copy Share Image
True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“John!?” I ask in shock. This woman recognizes me? It can’t be! “How do you know my name?” I wonder out loud. Suddenly she… — John Waters Copy Share Image
'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you. — John Waters Copy Share Image
To use bad taste, you have to know the rules of good taste. I've always thanked my mother for that. She taught how to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple… — John Waters Copy Share Image