Gritty Quotations

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

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 would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.

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

I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

We're still trying to build our team and make sure our team is solid on all fronts. We don't want to neglect anything worrying about somebody else. We're shaping and forming a tough, gritty team right now and I hope we don't take away from that by just preparing for someone else.

We're gritty right now. We're grinding through games an inning at a time.

Mike Peck has already had some gritty performances this season, and Karlis has been lights-out in both of his appearances.

No game is going to be easy. We're still finding out about our team and finding chemistry. But we are a tough team, a gritty team.

On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.

I don't think it's fair to compare. I play a totally different game than he does. I'm a lot more physical and gritty and I like to stand up for myself on the ice. I think his game is a little different than that.

He is a real gritty competitor, and he's going to be a guy who is involved physically because that gets him in the game. The only weakness I've seen in him is that he over-competes. He runs around a little bit trying to make contact when he doesn't need to.

He's a gritty player and as long as he can make the routine play, we'll be all right.

He's just gritty and determined. He's made more than one game-winning basket this year. He just doesn't have much fear.

He's a very gritty player ? perfect for match play. I hope he's on our Ryder Cup team because he certainly knows how to play match play and play under pressure.

He's built for playoffs. You look at guys over the years who were built for playoffs -- (Guy) Carbonneau and Mike Keane and Claude Lemieux. He's a gritty guy who does all the little things and he does them all year long.

He was incredible. You can always count on big players to come through in big games. Those were playoff style, gritty goals.

He could play the physical game, but he also had talent. I was lucky enough to have him as my left winger one year, and for a gritty guy, he had great hands.

He just bulldogged it and jammed it in. That's how you win the playoffs because the skill is so even. It's heart, determination and gritty hard work.

Just having the ability to throw Andrew in is a bonus. He's a gritty kid and he can definitely play the game. He has a lot of speed and is a (Storm head coach) Fran Gow product, so he plays good defensive hockey. He knows what to do in his end of the ice and that's what I like about him.

Jeremy brings a physical dimension to our hockey club and will fit in nicely with our team. He is a gritty player that has some valuable NHL experience, both in the regular season and the playoffs, and we are happy to have him.

Nancy Scott was worldly, funny and gritty in her approach to her work, ... She had a fine sense of outrage that gave her writing and her personality great vibrancy.

Melissa Rodriguez really stepped up and did a great job. She's just so gritty and so tough and she doesn't complain.

We played pretty well tonight. Lyman Ward is a good, hard hitting team that plays us gritty every game.

We've mastered the art of ugliness. That's what happens when you play hard and gritty like this team does.

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

We played where we wanted to play and took a lot of their skill away by making the right decisions and finishing checks and being gritty in certain areas.

We rolled four lines, we got a lot of gritty effort from a lot of different people at both ends of the ice. People talk about our ability to score, but we've also got a great ability as a team to play great defense.

We were exposed as not a very gritty team. We didn't go the defensive work we needed to do and that fueled their offense. This is going to be a challenge for our team and I hope it's a valuable lesson because we are going to see more of this.

We just need to work harder to get out of this slump. We have to do the gritty things and get the power play going.

Ville is an energy player who is gritty and hard to play against. He has provided a spark on every team he's played on and plays big in important games...he's a player you hate to play against but love to have on your team.

We have emphasized not to be scared of anyone since I got here, ... We don't want tradition to beat us before we get on the field. We have to have a gritty performance. Sometimes we will come out on the short end of the stick, but our kids will play really hard. With that in mind, I won't be disappointed at all if they give me everything they have.

Even though he hadn't scored in a while, he's been playing gritty and working hard.

Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.

I've really seen myself as a top scorer but more as role player. With my speed, I've gotten a lot of chances at the net, getting close in on the net, beating defensemen wide and getting breakaways. I like to call myself sort of a gritty player. I use my speed to get in there in the corners, but also I like to show a little bit of grit, get in there and throw the body around a little bit. I'm not the biggest guy out there, but I still like to throw a couple of hits.

It was very good to see. It was a gritty game. Most of the game we dominated and then at the end Orange really made a push and hung in there tight.

(Coach Cahill and his staff) have done a great job because I don't think anyone expected them to be No. 2 in the league right now. (The Vikings) are fundamentally sound, they are gritty, gritty kids, and they can shoot the ball.

As an East Coast artist who paid his dues performing in the clubs of New York City, Redman's inspired rhymes bring the gritty realism of the city to life in our game. His bold lyrics and hard-edged funk beats capture the vibes of the city, from Washington Heights to Harlem and all the way down to Battery Park.

The bottom line in tournament play is just to advance, and while we were short-handed, we just wanted to pull the win out. It was a gritty performance.

They're a battling team. They've got a gritty coach. They played hard. They try to play spoiler or whatever. Guys never quit in this league. It's never a given that you're going to get two points.

The number of customers restored daily is actually slowing as we continue to work on the isolated damage. We are working neighborhood by neighborhood, pole by pole. The work is gritty and slow.

It's going to be a grind-out game. It's going to be a Big East game. It's not going to be a walk in the park. With No. 1 on our chests, a lot of teams are coming for us, especially Pitt. With their gritty attitude, it's going to be an intense game...This is like a fight. It's more like 1-on-1-on-1-on-1-on-1.

The biggest thing that stuck out was the gritty performance.

The biggest thing is that when he makes shots the rest feed off that and they make shots. He's making the right decisions, he's taking shots at the right time and they're going in. That's the biggest thing. He's also been better defensively. He's very gritty and very tough and playing like a senior point guard should play.

It was a gritty effort by both teams, but hitting those three-pointers was the difference for us. Tonight, we did a horrendous job of finishing at the basket. We were fortunate to shoot such a high percentage in three-pointers.

It's night and day. We have very few of the same personnel. We don't have too many established guys, but I think we've got guys that are gritty and compete well with the bat.

The fascinating thing about this third one is it's a much more realistic and much more gritty approach to a Mission Impossible movie than has been seen before.

I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

I had no doubt these kids would bounce back. They're a gritty bunch who just love to play the game.

If you haven't already played Republic Commando , get it!, ... It's a brilliant, dark and gritty first-person, squad-based splatter fest set just before Revenge of the Sith .

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

Invasion gives Nicole an opportunity to bring her depth and range to the kind of gritty action role that we haven't see her play before, as Oliver infuses the film with the brand of provocative, character-driven storytelling he's known for.

Their job was to intimidate, hit guys hard, and send a message. They had hard-nosed, gritty forwards who had talent.

All in all, it was a good effort, a gritty effort, ... We stuck with it.

The effort (Dallas) puts out there is the best I've ever seen. He's gritty and the kind of player that has an edge.

The last two days now we've scored runs. We're gritty right now, and that's certainly important.