Quotes About Believability

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

You don't want to be acting your way towards something. The sense of believability has to be great, so bringing it as close to yourself as you can always helps.

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.

Comedy and silliness has a place in wrestling, but there's still gotta be some level of believability.

In order for the reader to believe the lies I'll tell, first I need to build a normal, everyday, believable environment ... Say, a scenario or, rather, a set design. And then, gradually, we could say surreptitiously, I introduce later the fact or facts that could never happen in real life.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

We have to tell our story at 'Ebony' and 'Jet' like no one else can. We have the authenticity; we have the believability. And I think that's what we have to own.

Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

I prize something that feels authentic. It's an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, and I think audiences do, too. One of the reasons why 'Bloody Sunday' and 'United 93' work is because they felt real, felt truthful.

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.

What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather settle for people thinking that I'm a bum, but digging my stories, than liking me and not being able to believe in my stories. That's one reason I've been hard on myself, because I want my stuff to be believable.

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

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

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.

Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.

When it comes to deciding whether a leader is believable, people first listen to the words, then they watch the actions. They listen to the talk, and then they watch the walk. They listen to the promises of resources to support change initiatives, and then they wait to see if the money and materials follow.