Top 55 Disbelief Quotes

As with the government failures that made 9/11 possible, neglecting to prevent the crash of ’08 was a sin of omission – less the result of deregulation per se than of disbelief in financial regulation as a legitimate mechanism.

If the actors aren’t reacting the way people would react, that’s where you step into disbelief.

The word ‘Antichrist’, to me, is the collective disbelief in god.

Indeed, Rusbridger has finessed for the Guardian a certain willing suspension of disbelief and is able to credibly maintain conceits and moral standards to which his own behaviour hardly conforms.

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

Working in the Middle East, daily I face the questions, disbelief, and accusations about how Americans could violate the human rights which they once championed.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

If I’m feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I’d have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

You can’t really do a big character in an action film; you’re already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

I’m sick of watching ‘Blue Lives Matter’ supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall.

I’m having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it’s moving backward, and I think there’s a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It’s suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

It’s not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it’s more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.

One of the reasons wrestling works is because it allows people to suspend their disbelief. They may know it’s not real, but if it’s done well enough, they get sucked into it emotionally. And that’s why they watch.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can’t help it.

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader’s disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don’t have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we’re working our way down a hole.

It’s absurd to think of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you’re reading for a while.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they’re playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.

One of the most crucial aspects of a haunted house movie is the fear and disbelief of the characters, because they don’t know what’s happening to them.

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there’s something infantile about it. You’re suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.

When you see a guy reading off a teleprompter or a mental teleprompter, just trying to recite a script or trying to look up in the air when you forget a line. It is hard to suspend disbelief when the wrestler doesn’t believe in the real-life situation that is unfolding.

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It’s totally OK to have one actor playing five roles – people are willing to believe that. But they won’t believe it if there’s a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, ‘What? Why?’ We – the parents of black children, the parents of all children – still need to tell that story.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government’s narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the ‘in-betweens,’ and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to write them. We all have to draw the line somewhere.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he’s playing.

I’m not a media personality, I’m an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.

It’s so inspiring to be able to look a child in the eyes and just shake their hands and see the disbelief that this is actually happening.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

It’s a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They’re a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You’re always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That’s what all theater and all film is based on.

When they’re watching musicals, I’ve heard people say, ‘That’s not realistic! Why would they just start singing?’ But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Theatre’s great. It’s such an act of faith. It’s a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It’s a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That’s why I love the theatre.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

When an incident is reported, HR almost always starts from a place of disbelief. They request evidence and ask for proof. But if HR is investigating a sexual harassment case within the company, it is their duty as HR to protect their employees. That is the sentiment that has to shift.

Sometimes I read a script and it’s obvious from early on that it’s one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters’ disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.