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American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer (born 1946)

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John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. He is recognizable by his pencil-thin mustache.

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Birth Name: John Samuel Waters Jr.

Alternative Names: John Samuel Waters • John Samuel, Jr. Waters • the Pope of Trash • Pope of Trash • the Duke of Dirty • Duke of Dirty

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I stopped taking drugs when I realized that pot smelled bad and LSD trips were becoming like TV reruns. I had had enough inner journeys — I felt I knew myself well enough, thank you.

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 looks nervous. “Well … you don’t recognize me?” I stare at her quizzically and she smiles sweetly and then says the one word that explains it all. “Eggs!” she cries in the most identifiable voice in the world. “EDITH!?” I scream so loud, she jumps. “Yes, honey, it’s me…,” she shyly admits. “You’re alive!?

The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.

"The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!"

If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be.

Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.

You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth

[I] pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

If I could pick my own death, it would be on a roller coaster that jumps the tracks and careens into a packed crowd at a cotton candy stand at a state fair.

I’m rich! I don’t mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That’s rich.