Jessica Brown Findlay

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

English Actress

Michael Kors

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

American Designer

Jessica Barden

There's a tendency to still show women as being one way or the other - you're either soft and shy or you're really ballsy and funny, but I think that we're everything.

Kacey Musgraves

Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.

American Artist

DJ Premier

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.

American Musician

Eva Green

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

French Actress

BJ the Chicago Kid

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.

Suranne Jones

I've always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I've got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.

Ava DuVernay

Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

American Director

Norah Jones

Used in casual conversation, not in formal writing or speeches.

Colloquial Usage

Implies admiration for someone's courage to take risks.

Positive Connotation

Can be seen as vulgar or inappropriate in certain situations.

Potentially Offensive

Suggests doing something despite potential negative consequences.

Implying Risk

Often associated with taking control or asserting oneself in a bold way.

Assertive Actions

Can refer to actions that go against traditional or expected behavior.

Challenging Norms

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 I want to change the way that we think about biological sex in this society -- which is a lot to ask for. You could say it's ballsy, I guess. But eventually we accepted the world as round, right?

The way we think about...

 big lips in that big ballsy voice my voice my greatest gift my greatest salvation my greatest tool my voice saved my life my voice gave me

Ballsy