Some things have to be believed to be seen. — Ralph Hodgson
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. — George P. Baker
We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being. — Rick Rubin
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. — Stephen Sondheim
If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible. — Tim Tebow
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. — Serge Daney
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth. — Orlando Bloom
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe. — Dorothy Draper
I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Ralph B. Perry
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility. — Albert Einstein
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins
Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do. — Jerzy Grotowski
Disbelief Quotes
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance — Al-Ghazali
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. — Rodney Mullen
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura
Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief — Harun Yahya
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. — W. Clement Stone
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. — George Bernard Shaw
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush
Imagination, at the very least, brings us joy; at the very most, it empowers us to suspend disbelief and chase the impossible. — Alexi Pappas
Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief. — August Wilson
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. — Edward Norton
The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen. — Doreen Valiente
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling
I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief. — Melissa Bank
What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief? — Ed Wood
We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly. — William Weld
It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief. — Johnny Depp
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing. — Edward Norton
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based. — Gillian Anderson
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic. — Marc Maron
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
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief. — Oren Peli
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film. — Peter Greenaway
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires. — Marilynne Robinson
Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it. — Elena Ferrante
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. — Dave Winer
There were successful ways of expressing the attitude and less successful ways. I think that spirit is very much alive today actually. That's what a certain generation of curators is alert to or on the look out for: an attitude. And it is a brilliant and moving spectacle when it happens. That suspension of disbelief is something that we all respond to. But it's hard to capture the butterfly without tearing the wings off of it. — David Salle
To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief. — Seth Rogen
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium. — Joseph Bologna
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. — Edward Norton
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility. — Kingsley Amis
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion. — Rudolf Arnheim
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief. — Lewis H. Lapham
I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate. — Sharon Salzberg
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