Guts Quotes

• I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Honest

• I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Real
  • Sad

• I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Girl
  • Reason
  • Sometimes

• Most entrepreneurs who have the guts to take on a big challenge are a lot like Babe Ruth - they set records for both home runs and strike outs.

  

  T. J. Rodgers
  • Challenge
  • Guts
  • Entrepreneurs

• There were cool bug spider monsters and fire and blood and guts - what's not to like?

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Fire
  • Blood
  • Monsters

• But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Rest

• There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Sexy
  • Beer
  • Guts

• The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Book
  • Fishes
  • Feds

• If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Today
  • Speak
  • Instinct

• The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Question
  • Trust
  • Directors

• If you have the guts to do anything,then you better save enough to face the consequences. Becoming bigger than life requires guts & instinct.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Instinct
  • Consequences
  • Guts

• I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Night
  • Justice
  • Knees

• I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.

  

  Cat Power
  • Problem
  • Brain
  • Guts

• You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.

  

  William Bernbach
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Results
  • Strategy
  • Standing

• It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Guts

• Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Purpose
  • Ideas
  • Commitment

• We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Running

• As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Baby
  • Advice
  • Poet

• I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Chins

• We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Passion
  • Combination
  • Operators

• There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

  

  Peter Chernin
  • Model
  • Guts
  • Business Plan

• It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.

  

  Richard Virenque
  • Important
  • Guts
  • Points

• ...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Describe
  • Knife
  • Smiled

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