Quotes About Gritty

The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.

The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.

I definitely love when things get gritty and they get a bit dirty!

Where I come from, the estates are not so nice. It is a bit gritty.

One of the main reasons I wanted to do 'Freefall' was that it's a complete contrast to what people see of me from being in the band. It's a gritty role and a gritty film.

I've been doing a lot of children's dramas, but I really wanted to move into more gritty stuff.

When you put the guitars over the 808, it just makes it grittier and grimier. It's just different.

The feeling of the early '90s... I think it was more... It was real. It was gutter. It was more entertaining.

Oh, it's a fine life, the life of the gutter. It's real: it's warm: it's violent: you can feel it through the thickest skin: you can taste it and smell it without any training or any work. Not like Science and Literature and Classical Music and Philosophy and Art.

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!

I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.

I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.

'Chicago Fire' has been a wonderful outlet for me. We're thrown into the gritty streets of Chicago working among actual first responders. They're a wonderful bunch, and the sense of community among Midwesterners is very similar to Australians.

It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.

I want to do a gritty, independent film, maybe in Scotland or something. I'll have an outrageous accent, and flowing red hair.

The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.

I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.

Light-colored roofs aren't a good complement to splattered blood. Long brown lines and streaks marked the rough gray paint, creating a Jackson Pollock canvas of death and dirt. The

It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Only 5 percent of entrepreneurship is the big idea, the business model, the whiteboard strategizing, and the splitting up of the spoils. The other 95 percent is the gritty work that is measured by innovation accounting: product prioritization decisions, deciding which customers to target or listen to, and having the courage to subject a grand vision to constant testing and feedback.

When you discard arrogance' cool gritty, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.