Suspension of Reality Quotes

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do that well, I think, one needs to point out the artifice of the narrative. Somehow if the narrator is self-aware then it's almost more humanizing and more relatable.

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!