Quotes About Believable

#1. After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.

Victor Garber

#2. Believable has nothing to do with true

Paul Acampora

#3. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

John H. Alexander

#4. Everything in life seems unreal.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

Paul Haggis

#6. Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

Rodrigo Santoro

#7. Intrinsically evil people are often hypocrites who make a show of their Goodguy Badge; without an enemy to plague them they could never in any believable sense become Good. This

Anton Szandor LaVey

#8. Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.

Reba McEntire

#9. The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

Marion Dane Bauer

#11. Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Carl Sagan

#12. Spider or gum? Spider or gum? I thought quickly trying to come up with a believable excuse when I blurted out, "I swallowed a spider!" What? I swallowed a spider? What the hell is wrong with me?!

Melissa Aragon

#13. You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.

Joel Kinnaman

#14. I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.

Michael Robotham

#15. I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

Charles Yu

#16. Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

Kerry Washington

#17. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

Anna Paquin

#18. I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

Tom Drury

#19. I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

Tony Campolo

#20. Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

John McGahern

#21. Good fiction makes the truth believable.

Tarrant Smith

#22. Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.

Michele Jennae

#23. Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

Adam Langer

#24. I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

Patricia Richardson

#25. I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

Mark Haddon

#26. Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

Stanley Tucci

#27. The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

Jean Hatzfeld

#28. They were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.

Margaret Atwood

#29. Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

John Lasseter

#30. I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

Jake Owen

#31. People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable authority. It doesn't mean I'm always right.

Michael Dirda

#32. If you want to make a lie believable, you gotta weave it with the truth."
My brows furrow, confused by the comment. "What?"
"Two truths and a lie, babe," he says. "Makes the lie harder to pick up on.

Ashley Stoyanoff

#33. You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

Donna Jo Napoli

#34. Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

Michael Foreman

#35. To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

#36. Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

Brandon Mull

#37. Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

Lucy Liu

#38. There are no unbeatable odds, there are no believable gods.

Ozzy Osbourne

#39. I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

Jim Crace

#40. The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#41. Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Sam Phillips

#42. I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.

Jason Wu

#43. Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.

Walt Disney

#44. I'm not super-comfortable with it. I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it's just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!

Evelyne Brochu

#45. Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.

Lysa TerKeurst

#46. When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

Rhys Darby

#47. Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

Owen Wilson

#48. A neutral observer would not find this world to be believable. Ergo, the cause of said unbelievable world must place similar stretch marks on the imagination. Step

N.D. Wilson

#49. He could easily invent an elaborate, plausible universe. But it is one thing to make that universe believable, and another to believe it. That is the difference between art and religion.

Lawrence Wright

#50. The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

Orlando Bloom

#51. When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

Marie Rutkoski

#52. It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.

Desi Arnaz

#53. It was like Rhys had ordered the whole thing from Castles R Us, and then never bothered to swing by the local Bed, Battlements, and Beyond for the accessories he'd need to make it believable.

Seanan McGuire

#54. Aim for believable growth, take immediate and ongoing action, under promise and over deliver, and work only on stuff that matters, and your financial destiny will prove to be a lot closer than you think! In fact, it's right around the corner...

Andy Goodman

#55. Several shades of the color, cloudy, silvery shades, churn underneath the surface of his skin, making him look marbled, textured. It paints a barely believable portrait. Every feature on him works in harmony to create, well, a person. But he's unlike any person I've ever seen.

Chelsea Scott

#56. My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

Kristian Bush

#57. The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Chuck Jones

#58. I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

Jill Scott

#59. William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

Condola Rashad

#60. Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

David Hockney

#61. On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Tom Holland

#62. What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

Chris Bohjalian

#63. People who overhaul their lives, there are no seminal moments or life-altering disasters. There are simply communities - sometimes of just one other person - who make change believable. One

Charles Duhigg

#64. So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

Robert Carlyle

#65. Instead, Taylor is concerned with the "conditions of belief" - a shift in the plausibility conditions that make something believable or unbelievable.

James K.A. Smith

#66. One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.

John C. Reilly

#67. And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Anna Friel

#68. Teamwork creates synergy and chemistry. We become unbreakable and believable.

Karen Kingsbury

#69. We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Nick Park

#70. I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

Eli Roth

#71. I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

John Mayer

#72. I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Matt Dillon

#73. For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

Hollie Cavanagh

#74. In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.

Bing Gordon

#75. A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Roger Scruton

#76. The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're doing fantasy stories, when you're doing superhero types of things.

Stan Lee

#77. That was a nice save," Harlin says, sounding amused. "So detailed. Like a nurse."

"Shut up, Harlin," I say, trying not to smile. "I didn't hear you offer anything better."

"You sure you didn't want to tell him we were playing doctor? That might have sounded more believable.

Suzanne Young

#78. Goals that are believable are achievable.

Idowu Koyenikan

#79. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Waitley

#80. Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#81. I'm not looking for is the audience going to like it [the film during the first screening] or not. I want to hear somebody try to poke a hole in it. I want to hear why they saw the logic was flawed or why that scene was not believable.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#82. Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

Warren Spector

#83. The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

Louis Sachar

#84. I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

H.C. Deboard

#85. If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.

Victor LaValle

#86. Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

Blaise Pascal

#87. I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself.

Irving Stone

#88. We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

Vincent Price

#89. It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

Timothy Dalton

#90. My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Mick Jagger

#91. Believe in the unbelievable and your belief will become believable

David Whelan

#92. Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details; any good lie does.

Anne Tyler

#93. On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.

Tim Berners-Lee

#94. I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

Terry Brooks

#95. Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.

Stephen King

#96. As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Marie Lu

#97. Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

Barbara Smoker

#98. I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in.

Greg Rucka

#99. The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

Ann Dowd

#100. When I originally came from 'Cheetah Girls,' I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I've been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don't jump the gun and throw anything out there.

Adrienne Bailon