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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”

Tom Waits

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap

I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”

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