Quotes About Gritty

Hers is a low voice, full of pebbles—a sailor's voice or a smoker's.

Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.

I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

You don't sign up to 'Trainspotting' expecting glamour.

'The Last Kingdom''s got its roots in history, and it's a lot grittier. It doesn't have the 'Game of Thrones' gloss.

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

'The Wire' fans are very specific and hard core. Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between.

I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.

My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.

He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.

War was never glorious, never grand—except in the pronouncements pols and other noncombatants made about it. It was, as he had experienced it, mostly dirty, disorderly, boring, lonely, and, for brief intervals, terrifying.

Chicago is a rough city. It made me raw.

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.

New York is responsible for bringing that raw, that real gritty hip-hop, because we... originated it.

'Shameless' is just such a realistic show.

The future has both gritty and savage and clean and 'techno-hip.' I think it's a very realistic point of view.

I have a very realistic style to my wrestling.

I'm pretty gritty.

Compound chocolate is gritty, cheaper and doesn't have that fruitiness, the backnotes and smoothness you get in couverture.

'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.