Quotes About Believable

#1. I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

Joel Kinnaman

#2. I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

Lucian Freud

#3. What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

Anne Rice

#4. You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera.

Holt McCallany

#5. I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

Dave Brat

#6. An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

David W Augsburger

#7. The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

Leo Burnett

#8. I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

Emma Caulfield

#9. To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

Bruno Heller

#10. All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

Edward R. Murrow

#12. Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Kevin Kelly

#13. If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

Aaron Sorkin

#14. Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

Patrick Stewart

#15. I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.

Gale Harold

#16. Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.

Linda Palmer

#17. Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.

Jason Bateman

#18. An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

Chuck Jones

#19. There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking.

Ethan Hawke

#20. ...no matter how liberal a church may seem, Christian dogma still revolves around an ancient, paternalistic image of God the Father, who quite frankly isn't much more believable than the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.

Gudjon Bergmann

#21. Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#22. He'd found himself intrigued by the way she'd weaved the lives of two very different people together, how she played off their strengths and weakness, how against all odds she brought them together and made it seem believable. Even if it was nothing more than make-believe. She was a talented writer.

M.K. Meredith

#23. If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

Walter Mosley

#24. I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

Minka Kelly

#25. I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

Flannery O'Connor

#26. The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.

Jenny Han

#27. Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Kenneth Rexroth

#28. A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

Kobo Abe

#29. The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Giacomo Casanova

#30. The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

Morris Hite

#31. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Maeve Binchy

#32. Once you learn the idea of what a good guy is, you want your dad to be a good guy, and when your dad lets you down and doesn't act like a good guy, it's disappointing and can make you angry as you see it happen, which is beautiful and very believable.

Viggo Mortensen

#33. The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

Geneen Roth

#34. It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

Robert Griffin III

#35. I love being presented a character that boggles my mind. I have to do a lot of work and explore how I can make the guy absolutely real and absolutely believable to myself. And then, I go to work on doing that for other people.

Michael Marisi Ornstein

#36. Fortunately, I had a believable, if utterly frivolous excuse for what we would have been doing out in Lafayette: There's this ice cream company called Jeni's? They're from Ohio?

Mira Grant

#37. Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.

Tony Evans

#38. She could spend the whole afternoon rebuilding it, repopulating it, until the hallucination became the more believable reality.

Anthony Marra

#39. You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

Michael Hirst

#40. My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Jessica Abel

#41. Always craft a story from real life encounters. It is more believable and you are able to tell it with some emotion.

Khalid Muhammad

#42. I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Kevin Bacon

#43. Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

Vera Farmiga

#44. It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

Kuno Becker

#45. You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

Bill Murray

#46. Righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Lloyd Alexander

#47. Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.

Rebecca Serle

#48. I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

Heidi Julavits

#49. It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

Cam Gigandet

#50. I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

Sidney Sheldon

#51. My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."

Romany Malco

#52. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

Ralph Webster

#53. Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

Rob Sheffield

#54. Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's believable or interesting.

Josh Becker

#55. In cosmos and microcosmos scale can be/so great and be so small/neither can stay believable, each/cancels the other out and we, too big/for one an unapparent otherwise/live self-scaled lives where we are as if we were./Bring some words together toward a real.

William Bronk

#56. The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#57. And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable.

Kent Haruf

#58. History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

A.E. Samaan

#59. When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

Todd Solondz

#60. Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.

T.R. Wallace

#61. Un-fucking-believable," Mark muttered. "In a country where they let embryos drive cars, I have to wait until I'm twenty-one to buy alcohol. What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" He glared at Deacon accusingly. "Well?

Lisa Henry

#62. I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

Chita Rivera

#63. I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.

Maggie Q

#64. Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#65. I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.

Mark Russell

#66. Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Don Roff

#67. Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

Wesley Snipes

#68. The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Mark Twain

#69. I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.

Hailee Steinfeld

#70. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

Ray Bradbury

#71. This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that.

Kurt Vonnegut

#72. I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.

Tyler Perry

#73. It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

Tanya Tucker

#74. Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Gil Kane

#75. You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

Hank Azaria

#76. Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

Flannery O'Connor

#77. I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable.

Scott Bradfield

#78. I like to make sure that I'm believable. If I don't believe me, then there's a lot of people that don't believe me, but if I can believe that I'm doing it, then I know the audience will, too.

Mekhi Phifer

#79. Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

Dave Gibbons

#80. Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means
it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

Chuck Klosterman

#81. I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

Katie McGrath

#82. Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#83. Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!

Vera Brosgol

#84. Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.

Katie McGrath

#85. Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#86. Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Criss Jami

#87. I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.

Kevin Hart

#88. I want to be believable in anything I take on.

Marlon Wayans

#89. Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.

J. C. Hutchins

#90. A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

Jack Higgins

#91. The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

Roger Spottiswoode

#92. I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

Michael Sheen

#93. Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Paul Lynde

#94. It's more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you're talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders?

Josh Lanyon

#95. To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

John Lasseter

#96. An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

Tobin Bell

#97. You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Bradley Whitford

#98. Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.

Paul Neilan

#99. The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Mark Haddon

#100. It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

Scoot McNairy