Quotes About Believability

Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

While it's great that some actors can do any character with conviction, I'd probably look odd doing anything unreal.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

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.

I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.'

What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all. Because without it, truth and reality go right out the window….

You can't have some phantom guy that's got all the authority, that's booking all the matches. It takes that stretch of believability and it goes way, way, way too far.

You never want to just be outrageous for outrageous' sake 'cause then it doesn't work, and it's not believable. You want to be as true to whatever character you're playing.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller

We must all start with the believable. That is the essence of our craft. All drama, all comedy, all artistry stems from the believable, which gives us as solid a rock as anyone could ask from which to seek humor.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.

I never think about my style but just try and make the pictures look believable.

verisimilitude.

I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

whether you're talking about boners, infidelities, late rent, or the Democratic primary: a single plausible excuse will sound like a credible explanation while a basket full of excuses—even a basket stuffed with equally legitimate, plausible/probable excuses—will sound like a desperate/unbelievable lie.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

The zoo's "image consultants" from New York had been very clear about this: establish your believability first, then go tabloid.