There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young. — John Waters Copy Share Image
My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went… — 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
I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should… — John Waters Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and… — 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
Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they… — John Waters Copy Share Image
People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children. — John Waters Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding. — John Waters Copy Share Image
What's fascinating to me is that in rich-kid schools, it's better to be gay. No one is discriminated against because they're gay… — 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
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
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![“Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.” quote by John Waters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b6/john-waters-751_bedroom_dreamland-studios-then-was-my-bedroom-at_2918221.jpg)
