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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
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Actress
Believable
Different
Machines
Unbelievable
Wind
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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
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Martial Artist
Action
Action Films
Believable
Character
Fame
Real
Smell
Truthful
Future I Am Will
Cycle
Films
Second
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In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
Bing Gordon
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Executive
Believable
Upside Down
Work Business World
Work Business Start
Upside
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I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That's how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don't regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.
Paul Orndorff
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Believable
Regret
Upset
Living People Way
Such A Way
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Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.
Lenny Abrahamson
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Film Director
Believable
Crew
Tricky
Largely
Rests
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When I came to WWE back in the day, I'd been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Actor
Believable
Frustrated
Momentum
Vicious
Wwe
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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
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Film Actor
Believable
Character
Motivation
Outrageous
Real
Real Character
Sake
Funny Always Character
Motivations
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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
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Novelist
Believable
Bible
Biblical
People
Play
Predictions
Prophecy
Unbelievable
Thus
Understandable
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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.
Anna Friel
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Actress
Believable
Character
Important
Stories
True Character
Apart
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.
Mira Nair
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Film Director
Afghanistan
Believable
Sitting
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The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.
John Cho
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Actor
Friendship
Relationship
Believable
Earnest
Harold
Primarily
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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.
Lucy Liu
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Actress
Believable
Work Out
Work Your Energy
Guns
Earn
Mental
Mental Energy
Mode
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
Sam Phillips
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Believable
Chord
Great Song
Strike
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I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.
Powers Boothe
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Television Actor
Believable
Scripts
Good Always Feel
Attracted
Figure
Good Feel Always
Good Scripts
React
Situations
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The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.
Roger Spottiswoode
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Film Director
Believable
Good World Me
Different World
Script
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Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.
Paul Neilan
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Novelist
Believable
Lying
People
Sound
Life Your People
Hard Part
Life Living People
Remembering
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Anyone can sing badly, but to sing badly on purpose and make it believable is harder. I listen for the actual melody in my head but sing right underneath or above it out loud. It takes a lot of concentration.
Colleen Ballinger
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Believable
Concentration
Harder
Loud
Melody
Purpose
Above
Actual
Badly
Sing
Underneath
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When the characters are believable and endearing, action scenes, for example, make an impact. Otherwise, the audience gets no kick out of action. The biggest strength of 'MCA' is that its characters are real.
Nani
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Action
Audience
Believable
Endearing
Example
Impact
Biggest
Characters
For Example
Gets
Otherwise
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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
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Musical Artist
Believable
Believe
Likeable
People
Singing
Thinking
Hope Believe I Believe
End Of The Day
Generally
Though
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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Believable
Relate
Song
Trying
Sell
Experienced
Picking
Worse
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It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in 'The Elephant Man'. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.
Jonathan Demme
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Filmmaker
Believable
Superb
Dr
Elephant
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It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
Kuno Becker
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Actor
Believable
Boxing
Easier
Injured
Muscles
Soccer
World Me Look
Look World Me
Pulled
Tougher
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I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.
Arjun Kapoor
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Film Actor
Believable
Comparison
Structure
Broad
Contemporaries
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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
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Actress
Believable
Animals
Ball Game
Camera
Sentence
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I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume.
Stephen Gaghan
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Screenwriter
Believable
Officials
Remember When
Traffic
Resume
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When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.
Marie Rutkoski
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Believable
Details
Pay Attention
History World Culture
Judge
History Culture World
Oftentimes
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You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers can enter. It's especially so, I think, for writers of historical fiction.
Justin Cartwright
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Believable
Historical Fiction
Always Believe World
Author
Enter
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I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.
Alan Arkin
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Actor
Believable
Character
Comedy
Guy
Insane
Stupid
Sunshine
Absolutely
Love Work History
Played
Miss
Maniac
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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
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Writer
Attitude
Accuracy
Authenticity
Believable
County
Customs
Exploring
Important
Setting
Thinking
Time Always Me
Attitudes
Researching
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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.
Matt Czuchry
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Actor
Believable
In The End
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William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.
Condola Rashad
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Actress
Audience
Believable
Brilliant
Truth Is
Writer
William
Shakespeare
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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.
Patricia Richardson
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Television Actress
Believable
Family Problems People
Draw
Recognize
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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
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Actress
Believable
Figuring
Screwed
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Everyone wants me to do the comedy thing. But I always wanted to do action adventure. I want to be a guy like 007 who fights against the establishment. If they can make Bruce Willis believable as an action hero, I could do it, too.
Sinbad
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Adventure
Believable
Establishment
Always Hero Me
Action Hero
Fights
Bruce
Hero Always Me
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I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in.
Greg Rucka
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Comic Book Writer
Amount
Believable
Reader
Research
Work Me Crazy
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Work Me Research
Buy
Invest
Element
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If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.
Jason Bateman
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Actor
Believable
Best Good Me
Eccentricities
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I feel the less you project of yourself, the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it's just better for your own mental health. Then you can be a human being and change your mind, and nobody asks you questions about it!
Evelyne Brochu
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Film Actress
Believable
Mental Health
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Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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Film Actress
Believable
Women Myself People
Strong Woman
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In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that - and it's got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.
Tana French
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Novelist
Funny
Believable
Brilliant
Creative
Equal
Satire
Thick
Tv
Insults
Parts
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I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes.
Teri Garr
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Actress
Funny
Acting
Believable
Sound
Universe
Funny Great Me
Cheers
Watch
Great Show
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OK, so, my favourite actress in the world is Sarah Paulson. I think she is so talented and I admire her so much, I have always said from the beginning she is someone who just really has perfected the craft. She could play anybody and be believable.
Bria Vinaite
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Believable
Favourite
Craft
Sarah
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People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.
Julia Davis
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Believable
Offensive
Tone
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I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.
Dave Brat
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Believable
Credible
Defense
Deregulation
National Defense
Needed
Tax
Articulated
Broad
Meant
Delivered
Free Markets
Lower
Markets
Rates
Reagan
Strong National Defense
Themes
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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
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Pastor
Believable
Commitment
Moving
Religious
Vote
Wonder
Commitments
Evangelicals
Forgive
Join
Move On
They Say
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I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.
Tom Drury
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Believable
Compelling
Sentences
Bought
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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.
Sean Hayes
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Believable
Personal Life
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You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.
Michael Hirst
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Screenwriter
Agree
Believable
Be Nice
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I'm extremely excited about working with Troika on 'The Hive.' This script has two elements I always look for in a thriller - strong, believable female characters and a smart, very dark and very creepy story that will definitely resonate with large audiences.
Brad Anderson
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Believable
Creepy
Dark
Elements
Female
Female Characters
Smart
Audiences
Extremely
Hive
Large
Resonate
Script
Thriller
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I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.
Michael Robotham
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Writer
Believable
Plot
Reader
Addition
Journey Believe Me
Be Different
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We all do role-play. Sometimes behind the camera, and sometimes in front of it. I am the few lucky ones who have been able to wear both hats and especially have been able to romance the camera in a believable way, and I hope that this romance between us never ends.
Arfi Lamba
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Believable
Hats
Romance
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