I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITSThe folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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The Universe is making music all the time.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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