The Wit and Wisdom of John Waters

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John Waters Anti-Smoking PSA (1982)

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He is once again so right

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"John Waters Is Ready for His Hollywood Closeup", The New Yorker

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John Waters on David Cronenberg (1997)

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John Waters at No Kings rally in Provincetown March 28, 2026. Photo by Peter Toro.

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Sometimes a hangover is fun: staying in bed all day, taking too many aspirin, jerking off, eating junk food, and ignoring incoming phone calls.

— John Waters: Mr. Know-It-All

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Edith Massey in Pink Flamingos | John Waters (director) | 1972

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My boyfriends have never been like me. I like somebody very different from me. I like him to be interested in things I’m not interested in sometimes. I don’t want to fuck myself!

John Waters (via thewitandwisdomofjohnwaters)

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I have Jim Jones, the record of ‘Everybody Kill Themselves’. I put it on at the end of a party, everyone leaves! It’s like blinking the lights.

John Waters (via thewitandwisdomofjohnwaters)

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I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, and The Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

John Waters (via thewitandwisdomofjohnwaters)

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My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn’t speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, ‘What? That’s your son.’

John Waters (via furabo)