John Waters Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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

  Years, Parent, Idiot

• I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

  John Waters

  Parent, Let Me, Juvenile

• It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

  John Waters

  Editing, Years, Leather Jackets

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

• I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Parent, Proud

  Source: www.timeout.com

• Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

  John Waters

  Fashion, Keys, Parent

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.99, Macmillan

• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

• Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

  John Waters

  Government, House, Parent

• I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

  John Waters

  Home, School, Perfectly Normal

• If you're a parent, I tell you how to get through Christmas. I think that if you've ever had a bad feeling about Christmas coming, I'll tell you how to deal with it. So, I think in a way it's like going to a sane psychiatrist that actually gives you some good advice, I hope!

  John Waters

  Thinking, Giving, Parent

• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

• 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.

  John Waters

  School, People, House

  Source: www.timeout.com

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