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I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
“I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.”
— John Waters · Arrested
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“I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.”
“I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact.”
“New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine.”
“In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.”
“A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.”
“My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was.”
“Denial is huge for any alcoholic, especially for a functioning alcoholic, because I - you know, I'm not living under a bridge. I haven't been arrested.”
“The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.”
“When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart.”
“You look at 'Arrested Development' or 'Community,' we're constantly either deconstructing genre or tone. We like to say it's like being a mad scientist: you get to play in a laboratory and experiment with directions to take narrative in.”
“My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.”