Believable Quotes - Page 5

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

  Cam Gigandet

  Play, Guy, Challenges

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• 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

  Biblical, Play, People

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

  Jake Owen

  Song, Believe, Happenings

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

  Tanya Tucker

  Successful, Good Questions, Way

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• 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

  Wind, Different, Machines

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 9, 2010.

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• To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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

  Dave Gibbons

  People, World, Helping

  "Artist Dave Gibbons' Gut Feelings on the Watchmen Movie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2008.

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

  Roger Scruton

  Philosophy, Believe, Doubt

  Roger Scruton (2016). “Philosophy: Principles and Problems”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Government, People, Political

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• 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

  Dream, Greatness, Age

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

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Reality, Matter, Masters

  "Classics Revisited". Chapter: "Tolstoy: War and Peace", p. 192, 1968.

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• 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

  Atheist, Atheism, Alternatives

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• 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

  Acting, Serious, Roles

  "Stanley Tucci and Sophia Myles Talk TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, Filming Action Scenes, Working with Michael Bay, and Their Favorite Bay Movies". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• 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

  Trying, Saws, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Believe, Order, Giving

  "Victor Garber Talks BIG GAME, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE FLASH, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2015.

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• William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; thats the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

  Condola Rashad

  Believe, Way, Brilliant

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• 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

  Lying, Writing, Trying

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Wesley Snipes

  Book, Challenges, Adaptation

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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