Believable Quotes

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow

Truthful, Persuasive, Credible

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger

Secrets, Poetic

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.
Chuck Jones

Work, Good, Thinking

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

Put, Able, Means

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.
Kelly Clarkson

Nothing, Try, Song

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
Tony Campolo

Family, Forget, Forgive

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.
John Mayer

Hope, End, Down

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.
Sidney Sheldon

Time, Important, Action

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

Character, Actor, Role

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
Bryan Cranston

Bad, Boring, Sake

Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.
Vera Farmiga

Time, Children, Game

I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
Michael Sheen

Making, Playing, Reputation

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Patrick Stewart

Important, Ship, Creating

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.
Anne Rice

God, Character, Him

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.
Todd Solondz

Life, Real, Down

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

Greatest, Nothing, Opinion

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.
Anna Paquin

Work, Someone, Real

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

Comedy, Almost, Realism

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

Kiss, Reader, Gives

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.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Future, Real, Action

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

Good, Successful, Question

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.
Hank Azaria

Funny, Character, Real

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
Tim Berners Lee

Deep, Thinking, Find

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.
Bradley Whitford

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

Today, Successful, While

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.
Jerry B. Jenkins

May, Play, Makes

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.
Terry Brooks

Able, Themselves, Magic

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

Love, Enough, Affair

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.
Nick Park

Computers, Before, Build

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!'
Kerry Washington

Different, Afraid, Making

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