I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind. – Josh Hartnett
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I’ve dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. – Jane Birkin
I’m probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn’t appeal at all. – Irvine Welsh
At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out. – Al Franken
I’ve accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. – Alexei Sayle
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind. – Michael Nesmith
Eight shows in six days can become very tiring – actually, a grind. It’s not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude. – James Snyder
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. – Roy Blount, Jr.
When you’re in WWE, it’s a part of that contract signing, that grind. You’re on-call 24-7. That’s why you become the star that you are. – Rey Mysterio
My explosiveness, I really couldn’t show it at UCLA. It’s still there. It’s always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East, and so you know that’s a grind out game. – Shabazz Muhammad
You’re confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. – Wentworth Miller
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. – Vladimir Lenin
I don’t think I’m a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I’m clearly not homophobic! I’m not pro or con. – Steve-O