It’s like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don’t mind doing interviews if they’re by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.
Having ground my teeth at educational theorists who say Shakespeare is irrelevant to inner-city children, I was overjoyed to be there when a class of 12-year-olds who had studied Twelfth Night were asked if they wanted to see it performed. A forest of hands shot up.
I don’t have false teeth. Do you think I’d buy teeth like these?
I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It’s a little like waving a knife in front of you. It’s very primitive, and therefore bizarre.
I’m excited about going back to ‘Today,’ but, at odd moments, I’ll grit my teeth in anxiety. I feel like a student before the start of school. I’ve got my new shoes and my book bag, but I’m not sure I’ll remember how to do trigonometry. During my maternity leave, I haven’t used many words of more than one syllable.
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I’ve got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
I’ve knocked my front teeth out. I’ve got fake front teeth.
That was my pride and joy – that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery.
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I’m glad. It’s going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I’m right in style.
Normally, I’m a grumpy old man – whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
I like to see life with its teeth out.
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track. A writer for ‘Elle’ spent two hours talking to this guy and discarded almost everything he said. When the story came out, we both were weeping while reading it on the street!
My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only dumbbells. That’s about it.
I’m a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I’m ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he’s got it all.
I’m one of those people who has a toothbrush and toothpaste with me at all times. After lunch, I’ll brush my teeth in a restaurant bathroom!
Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
When I was younger I smashed my teeth and since I was 12 I’ve been saying: ‘I want veneers! I want veneers!’
I’d really like to be able to whistle with two fingers. Is this a biological thing? Is it to do with the teeth? Who teaches people to do this? How do I learn?
I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there’s something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there’s an unbelievable energy on set.
Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog’s life isn’t going to kill someone for gold teeth.
Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you’re playing someone who’s sort of seedy, there’s less limitation, there’s so much space you can travel. There’s room to move in.
One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans’ bodies on me.
Even though I’m a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
I’m a stage actor. You know, I was – I cut my teeth on stage, you know. So I’ve always had a love affair with the stage, first off, what I was raised in, you know.
I live at the dentist’s. I’m on my third set of teeth that they put in with nails and screws.
Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don’t deserve you.
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing of Hemingway and Faulkner. Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Border Trilogy’ has been a huge influence; I think I read those novels four times.
I did karate for about three years. When I was going into Miss Texas, my mom said, ‘Let’s not do karate this year. Let’s not have any knocked-out teeth on the stage.’
They say, ‘Write what you know.’ What I know isn’t cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.
I am God’s wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
Anyone who says that awards make no difference to him is lying through his teeth!
You don’t become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.
The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.
Gymming for me is as important as breathing or brushing my teeth.
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
