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

- Aaron Paul

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

- Amy Grant

I'm chuffed to be getting gritty stuff.

- Ben Hardy

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

- Cary Fukunaga

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

- Charlie Rowe

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

- David Tennant

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

- Domhnall Gleeson

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

- Isobelle Carmody

I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?

- Jesse Kellerman

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

- Jeff Vandermeer

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.

- Laura Vandervoort

Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down.

- Michael Nutter

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

- Philippa Gregory

I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

- Rachel McAdams

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

- Raymond Kelly