Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person…

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

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…

— Kerry Washington

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

— Cobie Smulders

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

— Orson Scott Card

“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”

— Tarrant Smith

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

— Kay Kay Menon

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which…

— Anne Tyler

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

— Barbara Smoker

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…

— Patricia Richardson

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.…

— Chuck Jones

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian

I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away…

— Gale Harold

When I originally came from 'Cheetah Girls,' I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a…

— Adrienne Bailon

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have…

— Michael Hirst