Believable Quotes - Page 2

• I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Silly, Reading

  "J. J. Abrams: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Kevin Hart

  Want

  "Kevin Hart Talks RIDE ALONG, Mutual Respect with Ice Cube, the Funniest Scene They Shot, and Keeping the Movie Grounded". Press conference, collider.com. January 13, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.

  Errol Morris

  Hero, Opportunity, Long Ago

  "Greasing the Ad Engine: Errol Morris". Sandy Hunter, Boards Magazine, August 1, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

  Warren Spector

  Creating, World, Hard

  4 Copy quote

• The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, White, Space

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Righteousness

  4 Copy quote

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

  Desi Arnaz

  Character, Easy, Shows

  4 Copy quote

• My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

  Mick Jagger

  Keeping Secrets, Secret, Poetic

  55 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Lucky, Olympus

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Real, Needs, Enough

  7 Copy quote

• Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Warrior, Reality

  Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (1988). “Century of the Wind”, Pantheon Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

  Umberto Eco

  Together, Stories, Way

  "The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana". Book by Umberto Eco, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

  Terry McMillan

  Philosophy, Character, Emotional

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  Character, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Feelings, Fiction, Pages

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Wesley Snipes

  Book, Challenges, Adaptation

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

  Sofia Coppola

  Moving, Space, Actors

  4 Copy quote

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

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Giving, Praise, Curious

  Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Linda Palmer

  Truth, Lying, Sometimes

  Linda Palmer (2005). “Love Her to Death”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Years, Old Friends, Way

  "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Fun, Character, Superhero

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Events, Certain, Middle

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Lying, People, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Fake People, School, Thinking

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• People talk about things happening and it being "unbelievable," and it's exactly the reverse. It's really believable, but we are so conditioned to believe that these kinds of things are just coincidences, that they're just things that show up arbitrarily in our lives, when the fact is that all of us have this kind of guidance available to us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, People, Facts

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source