Believable Quotes

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.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

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

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

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.

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

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

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly 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.

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

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

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

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 don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

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.

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.

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.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

The role of an actor is to make every character 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.