Guts Quotes - Page 7

• R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

  Sam Raimi

  Blood, Talking, Ifs

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• I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

  Jeff Zucker

  Mistake, Thinking, Leader

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• Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Evil, Hats, Consciousness

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• I like guts in my leaders.

  Sean Hannity

  Leader

  "Behind Sean Hannity's Desk". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Night, People

  "Salad days for satire". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. February 8, 2015.

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• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brain, Directors, Roles

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• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Team, Writing, Heart

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

  Sarah Palin

  Underdog, Principles, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2012

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• I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

  David James Elliott

  Choices, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Special, Firsts

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• I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Doctors, Blood, Littles

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• Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

  Joe Kapp

  Sports, Morning, Sweat

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• One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

  Anthony Head

  Advice, Yogurt, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

  Rami Malek

  Decision, Actors, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

  Bill Rancic

  Being Yourself, Fun, Hard Work

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• I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

  David O. Russell

  Careers, Fighter, Instinct

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• I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

  Fred Seibert

  Heart, Dark, Imagination

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• I act with my gut instincts.

  Alanna Ubach

  Instinct, Gut Instinct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Writing, White

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• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  Mae Whitman

  School, People, Hurtful

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.

  Anson Mount

  Thinking, Humanity, Quality

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2012.

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• I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

  Will Self

  Attention, Pay, Facts

  "Will Self: modernism and me" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

  George McGovern

  War, People, Political

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• The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.

  Dylan Lauren

  Decision, Sitting, Wells

  "How Ralph Lauren's Daughter Is Building A Candy Empire" by David Mielach, www.businessinsider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Zero, Emotional, Blood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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