Rachel Nichols Quotes

I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

I'm not your traditional action hero.

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I want to be believable in anything I take on.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

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

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Matter-of-fact descriptions make the improbable seem real.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel like they have to have been perfect in order to have anybody believe them. They think nobody will believe them unless a stranger jumped out from behind a bush with a knife - not that they got too drunk and that a guy they thought they knew, you know, took advantage of them in a physical, assaultive way.