Cut My Teeth Quotes

#1. 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.

Dana Brunetti

#2. I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

Nicolas Cage

#3. My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

Miranda Lambert

#4. I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.

Patrick J. Adams

#5. I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

Barry Sloane

#6. I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

Bea Arthur

#7. I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

John Fogerty

#8. Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.'

Bryan Batt

#9. I cut my teeth as the black raccoon
For implements of battle.

Countee Cullen

#10. I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

Rufus Wainwright

#11. I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Cass McCombs

#12. 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.

Glynn Turman

#13. Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

John Dyer Baizley

#14. Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.

Jimmy Chamberlin

#15. The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.

Wylie Dufresne

#16. In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Charlie Pierce

#17. I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

Christopher Denham

#18. I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above.

Mike Tice

#19. I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

Don Henley

#20. I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

George McGovern

#21. A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I've written was work.

Jon Spaihts

#22. I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

Johnny Bower

#23. Marry me, he says. I got all my own teeth, I wash twice a year an I'll cut you in fer half the business here.

Moira Young

#24. If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#25. I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

Gary Allan

#26. I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.

Charlize Theron

#27. 'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.

Jon Landau

#28. A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

Anne Fadiman

#29. If," I said through my teeth, "you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser, I'll cut out your heart and fry it for breakfast!

Diana Gabaldon