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Quotes About Believable

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
~ Edward Bond
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
~ Mick Jagger
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
~ Kevin Bacon
I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.
~ Tom Drury
Both Christ cosmically and Jesus personally make the unbelievable believable and the unthinkable desirable. Jesus Christ is a Sacrament of the Presence of God for the whole universe!
~ Richard Rohr
She didn't. I hadn't seen or spoken to Hailey since I left Silence. He frowned. Then she made that stuff up? Nell sipped her coffee, then smiled. She always made stuff up, Max. Didn't you know? You're saying she was a liar? Sweet, friendly Hailey. So charming, so good-tempered. And she had a way about her, didn't she? A way of… getting people behind her. A way of making people believe her. Not exactly my strong suit, huh?
~ Kay Hooper
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
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.
~ Fred Armisen
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.
~ Bria Vinaite
Everything in a story should be credible.
~ Rex Stout
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.
~ David Jason
The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
~ Andrew Clements
The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.
~ Jenny Han
The most believable lies are the ones that are at least a bit true.
~ Jenny Han
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
I love fallible characters.
~ Ruth Jones
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
had been too young, and too infatuated with the plausible
~ Alexander McCall Smith
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
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
~ Flannery O'Conner
The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.
~ Eli Roth