A Quote by Simon Rattle

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

Simon Rattle

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Simon Rattle
English - Musician
Born: January 19, 1955

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

Helena Bonham Carter

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

Will Gluck

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

John Allen Paulos

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

Rex Stout

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.

Adam McKay

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.

Eric Bischoff

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.

Vera Farmiga

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?

David Henry Hwang

I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.

Mark Strong

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

William Friedkin

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Stephen Sondheim

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

Hal Rothman

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

Pete Townshend

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

Andrew Lord

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

Sylvester Stallone

There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

Charles Duhigg

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