I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
I met Drew Barrymore, and she was so cool. She told me, ‘I know I just had my baby three weeks ago, and that’s why I’m emotional, but I cried when you performed.’ And then she pulled out a tissue and said, ‘Look, I was sobbing.’
I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn’t cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I’d been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this – when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
When I lost to Michael Watson, I cried. I thought the world was on my shoulders and I broke down. But I came back because I wanted my titles.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
By the time I came to L.A. I’d already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from ‘Knots Landing’.
My wife and I have mellowed out as we’ve gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we’d think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth – he’s the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we’re much more relaxed these days.
On the sets, Bharathirajaa would treat me like an adult even though I was just 16. One day, he slapped me. I was taken aback. I cried and went back to school. Then, he called me and said, ‘You are like my daughter. Come back.’
Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen’s ‘If I Should Fall Behind’ for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me ‘Love You Forever.’ I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.
The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard because I kept looking at my daddy going, ‘Oh my God. There’s somebody on TV that looks like me! She looks like me! Yay! I can be on TV! I can be on TV! I can do it! Look at her – look at her! She looks just like me.’
One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on ‘Body and Soul.’ Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn’t want to play again for three months.
I cried after the game when we won the league – it was hugely special to me. The first season we came second and got to the Champions League semifinal, and I knew I needed to come back and win with Chelsea.
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that .
Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn’t believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It’s more than once that I cried.
People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there’s simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren’t apples.
I’ve probably cried with a lot of songs – in teenage crushes, adult crushes.
I remember ‘The Yearling’ was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I’d be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
I screamed and cried, but no one ever came. No doubt it was in one of those scream-filled nights in which my strong singer lungs and my crazy voice were born.
When I was a baby, if I cried, my parents didn’t give me a blanket. They gave me a ball and sent me to the little court in our backyard. I must have cried a lot because I was one of those kids who could dribble and shoot at 5 years old.
When I heard that Hollywood was going to make Kevin Kwan’s novel ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ into a movie, I was so ecstatic I nearly cried.
People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me… Jesus Christ. That’s a crazy sign.
The worst present I got was when I was 10. I had specifically wished for a Barbie horse. My dad got me a cheap, poorly made version of it and I cried all evening.
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn’t always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
Once, four friends and I cut all our hair off, like boys. A couple of them cried afterwards, but I thought we looked really good.
I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.
‘Privileged,’ without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on ‘Gossip Girl’ and spend the summer in a city that I’ve absolutely fallen in love with.
There was a phase when I cried for days and doubted my decision to be an actor when my films were not doing well. But soon I stood up and decided to do something that could set me apart. I decided to excel in what others didn’t have, I focused on my actions and my fitness.
Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in ‘Ex Machina’ and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.
I would love for there to be a ‘Voodoo Dreams’ movie, especially after seeing the glorious ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild.’ I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical atmosphere. I cried.
I don’t know if I’ve ever screamed or cried for a band.
If you’re let go from Celtic, the club you support, and go to Queen’s Park, people think it’s a disaster. I don’t think I cried, but I was very upset. As a young boy, your dream has been taken away. But I had good people around me, and it was probably the best thing that happened.
I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.
OMG, I have my ‘Mamma Mia!’ playbill framed in my bedroom. It was magical! I totally cried… a lot! I remember collecting playbills my entire life, and then to be in one… I have no words.
I’ve cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don’t know how I’m still alive.
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
It’s super cool to me when my manager screencapped Sharon Van Etten saying my album is great on Twitter and I about cried ’cause she’s a hero. And that led to… I got to have lunch with her! I got to meet a hero!
The first time I tried on Shang-Chi’s superhero suit – Marvel has never had an Asian lead, so that was such a rare and impactful moment, for me as an actor but also for people who look like me. I nearly cried. It was so emotional.
For a long time, I resisted seeing ‘The Sound of Music,’ but when I finally did, I cried.
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, ‘Victory,’ and walked off the field.
I remember when I watched ‘Hellraiser’ with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.
Every joke in ‘The Office’ was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.
The whole time I was in Rio, I probably cried every single night.
I’m very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It’s still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
I’m being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.
I consider Rahman as a great composer. I had a lump in my throat when I heard his name being announced. I thanked God that he got an Oscar for Original Score, that was more than enough for me. I wonder what might have happened to me if I had gone there. I might have cried.
