John Waters Quotes

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.

I have lived my whole life in Delhi. I used to live in Rohini and then I moved to Munirka. I have seen north and south Delhi very closely. That's why my songs and raps have a Dilli waali feel to it. Delhi made me who I am today and I am proud of it.

I've just been very interested in the living side of Washington, rather than the federal side, since I was a kid.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.

New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

I’m not trying to be, like, the bisexual, lesbian rapper. I don’t live on other people’s terms.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Don't live your life to please other people.

What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

I want to always be an interloper. I never want to feel like I'm a guy who is embraced by the people who are putting me on the air. I want to feel like I broke into the studio and took over and made them mad. If I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.