Top 111 Believable Quotes

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It’s a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In ‘Robin Hood’, you have more artistic license – it’s all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

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.

The Marxist theory of ideology is extremely contentious, not least because it is tied to socio-economic hypotheses that are no longer believable.

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.

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.

It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in ‘The Elephant Man’. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.

When the characters are believable and endearing, action scenes, for example, make an impact. Otherwise, the audience gets no kick out of action. The biggest strength of ‘MCA’ is that its characters are real.

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

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.

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.

‘The Avengers’ made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

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.

When I’m picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There’s nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn’t believable coming from them.

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.

I would like ‘Frost’ to go on forever, but you don’t want people in the press hammering you, saying you’ve outstayed your welcome or that it’s not believable anymore.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

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.

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!

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.

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

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

If the goal is to be believable when you’re acting, I’ve got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that’s a good part for me.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

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.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

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?’

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.

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

Without Roddy Piper, you can’t have an equal good. He was a great villain and so believable. He wasn’t playing a part ever.

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

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.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It’s very European.

I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That’s because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.

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.

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

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.

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.

It’s such a challenge to play a good guy – it’s hard to be believable.

I love Robin Wright’s character in ‘House of Cards’ because she’s a bona fide villain. She’s a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world.

People could write stuff that’s really offensive, but if it’s written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it’s just shock-value stuff, then it’s not going to work, because it’s not coming from a true place.

You hear many things, take a little from each experience, and tune your imagination to create believable characters and situations.

I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it’s a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’ He’s a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.

The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching ‘Hell Drivers,’ a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the ‘Daily Record.’ This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, ‘Dad, you’ve not got long to go – don’t you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?’

I remember, when I was writing ‘Traffic,’ talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.

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.

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.

I always try to write about believable people.

OK, so, my favourite actress in the world is Sarah Paulson. I think she is so talented and I admire her so much, I have always said from the beginning she is someone who just really has perfected the craft. She could play anybody and be believable.

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

When I play a gay character, I want to be as believable as possible. And when I’m playing a straight character, I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character.