John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else.

Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

The secret Ive lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And thats always my closet.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.