"I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say"
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The intent is disarming candor. A fashion critic survives on opinion, and opinion is inseparable from persona. "Big mouth" is both job requirement and liability: you need the nerve to judge other people's presentation while knowing the camera is judging yours. The teeth tag - "they say" - adds a layer of industry ventriloquism. He’s not even fully claiming the compliment; he’s quoting the invisible chorus of producers and publicists who reduce people to broadcast-ready traits.
Context matters: this is the late-20th/early-21st-century churn where print-era gatekeepers get pulled into a TV ecosystem built on immediacy, branding, and a kind of cosmetic legitimacy. Cojocaru’s joke lands because it acknowledges that "credibility" on television can be absurdly tactile: the audience reads confidence through veneers, not footnotes. He’s telling you he knows the game, and he’s willing to narrate the indignity of playing it.
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"I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-writer-now-ive-started-to-be-on-television-i-97954/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







