Top 309 Believable Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the truth is not as believable as a well-crafted lie.

I always try to write about believable people.

In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

The thing about astroturfing is that it can be really believable.

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's believable or interesting.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is to make people think that that character could exist, that he's real, and the way to do that is to make him believable. He doesn't have to be likable or charming, but he just has to be believable. That is someone who I could see on a bus. That is someone who I could walk past in the street.

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

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

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

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

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

There are no unbeatable odds, there are no believable gods.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

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

If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

I want to be believable in anything I take on.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

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

It wouldn't be believable to show an elevator stuck for five minutes in the U.S. today.

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

In 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' there were times when I told Eastwood, 'This is just not believable.'

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

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

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

I like everything to be natural... believable.

'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

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

When I play a gay character, I want to be as believable as possible. And when I'm playing a straight character, I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character.

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

I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.

I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.