Michael Keaton Quotes

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

I've been operated on 13 times.

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

I've had two shoulder surgeries.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it's going to get.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

L.A. is wonderful. They have something called sleep dentistry. You just go there, and they put you to sleep and go, 'Drrrrrr,' and by the time you wake up a few hours later, you have a whole new set of teeth. I mean, whatever you want them to do.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

A surgical operation is bloody, messy and never fun.

I said "Vote Yes." He voted "Yes." We rolled him out again. He does better under sedation.