Words matter. These are the best Crying Quotes from famous people such as Jennifer Palmieri, Nick Young, Tionne Watkins, Nikki Reed, Fergie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You hear people say, ‘Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn’t get through it without crying.’ Well, like, think of all the great things we didn’t hear because of that.
My dad tells me I smile to keep from crying. I don’t know about that. But I do think you sometimes smile to hide.
I want to raise my own baby. I don’t want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.
Right now I’m in ‘Twilight’ and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it’s so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever ‘Twilight’s no longer relevant, that doesn’t live on for me. It’s because of this. It’s not very often that this happens for people.
I love crying at romantic movies like ‘The Notebook.’ I’m always bawling.
I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.
I remember ‘Hannah Montana’ came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, ‘I want to do that.’
In college, they taught us to think of a bad smell or simulate a bad taste to start crying. I just think of my ex-boyfriend!
If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there’s lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn’t qualify it as a sport, then I don’t know what does.
Emotions get in the way but they don’t pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
My tolerance for tears is very little when you’re beautiful and crying over nothing.
Sometimes you have to lie to yourself to get through the criticism, and then you’re in your closet crying. It’s been like that for me a couple of times, but I only want to learn from those things.
The first book I really loved was ‘Little Women’ – I’d have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ too; ‘What Katy Did;’ and ‘Peter Pan.’
Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.
Many nights I wake up not able to breathe. I think I’m in Guantanamo Bay. I’m crying and shouting and making it very hard for the people that are with me in the room to sleep.
One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It’s sometimes harder than yawning on cue.
I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
I’d go into the pub and start crying even before I’d had my first drink.
My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don’t like it. But if you can’t, then deal with things as they are because crying about it isn’t going to change anything.
When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum’s shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.
I don’t like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don’t like crying.
There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I’ve always just been able to do it.
‘QI’ is exactly what the best TV ought to be – you learn something, but you are also crying with laughter.
When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for ‘Popworld’ and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.
I’m not used to crying. It’s a little difficult. All my life I’ve had to fight. It’s just another fight I’m going to have to learn how to win, that’s all. I’m just going to have to keep smiling.
I’m always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.
To be honest, I used to hate shopping. I rarely left a store without crying, cursing my body, and swearing under my breath at the fashion industry.
When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.
You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there’s no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you’ve got.
You kind of did fight for food, so I filled up my plate. My dad would make us finish it, and I’d sit there crying because I’d have to finish all that food. I think that forced my stomach to stretch.
I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.

I remember sitting in the theater watching ‘Bridesmaids,’ and I’m doubled over laughing, and then I’m crying in the same movie. It’s the overwhelming feeling, as I’m looking up and seeing these women, and I’m realizing how rare it is to see that.
I have never, ever slept through my child crying unless I have had a sleeping tablet; and I only take a sleeping tablet when I know Steve, my husband, is on duty. We take turns: he does one night, I do the next.
I just can’t wait to get out there on stage. There’s no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it – even if we’re crying.
When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic. I used to go crazy. If I cried, it’d be like, ‘Ah, Chris is crying again… damn it… come on, get in the car.’ All that over one game. I hated to lose.
I remember when we were going to release ‘Dancing On My Own,’ and I went into the record label crying to them that I was terrified people wouldn’t support me anymore if they knew I was gay.
I am also lucky that I can forget about any character I do within 24 hours. I can laugh heartily within minutes of doing a crying scene.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
I think my life is quite boring, but apparently people like watching me eat takeout, and crying about my love life.
And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
To me, when you’re crying, you’re aligned with some sort of truth. Some inner truth. That’s why you cry. You identify. It’s just ultimate honesty.
The energy that you expend making yourself look frightened and feeling frightened is just as hard as crying and shouting and all the other extremities of emotion.
I have been a cry baby since my childhood. Even teachers were scared of my crying.
I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It’s really just the way children communicate.
I’m very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn’t have him in my life. It was good to cry it out and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.
Be bold – there’s enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!
My parents didn’t give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like ‘go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don’t come crying to us when you get scratched. You’ve got prosthetic legs – that’s very nice.’
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se… I’m sure I’m going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
There’s a photograph of me in the transplant unit where I have a vomit bucket under one arm, I have my laptop on my knees, and I’m crying, not because, you know, I’m about to have a bone marrow transplant, but because I’ve missed a deadline!
You know in acting you have those moments in a movie where a character yells or breaks down crying and you’re like, wow, that’s acting?
I don’t want, under any circumstances, to see in ‘Haaretz’ a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.
I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behavior. You shouldn’t do it, because it’s going to drag you and everyone else around you down.
I really do prioritise humour in people. It’s a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.
I’ve been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show ‘Billy Elliot’ there – phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
Especially in front of my dad, I don’t like being weak. I don’t like crying in front of my dad because I don’t want to make him cry.
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren’t sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don’t cry: you scream, you try to run. When it’s over and you’re OK, that’s when you cry.
My family is from Jamaica, it’s why I don’t do ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ because within two or three generations is slavery, and I’d be there two minutes in crying, they’re all slaves! So I don’t want to do ‘Who Do You Think You Are.’ It’s in my family.
I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible – when I meet fans and they’re crying, I’ll say, ‘Calm down, there’s nothing to cry about.’
I know it’s working when I’m writing a book if I’m laughing or crying.
When I received the call saying: ‘Bruno, you have the chance of moving to Manchester’ I called my wife, my brother, my sister, my mother and just started crying. But I was crying through happiness.
I’m the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter… I am so unlucky.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn’t know why he was crying.
The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They’re very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I’ve seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It’s a little bit like church, but it’s very secular.
Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
I’ve always been good at putting things behind me – I fall apart, do my crying bit and then put it away and move it.
It is not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.
It’s hard to do a reality show when there’s so much crying and drama.
I took all of my rejection letters – there must have been thousands of them in a huge box – and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.
I’d love to do more comedy. It’d just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.
I started crying, because there’s nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.
If it’s an emotional chick-flick type of movie, chances are, I’m going to end up crying. I’m not afraid to admit that, because I think emotion is very healthy.
Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it’s 22 years later, and they still haven’t lost their virginity.
Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don’t have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn’t given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.
I won’t sit in the corner, crying, waiting for people to give me things: things do not just fall from the sky.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They’re an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
I’d see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn’t understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I’m a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we’re all sinners.
I’d love to say that I’m this brave person doing this big adventure and that it’s easy. The truth is, the night before I left, I called my mom, crying and nervous, thinking, ‘What am I getting into? Can I really ride my bike across the country?’
I’ve laughed, and I’ve cried. Laughing has got it over crying.
I would love to retire a City player and I have my fingers crossed it is something that can still happen. When I did leave in 2005, I broke down crying on the way to sign for Chelsea, but back then, we needed the money my sale brought in.
I’ve been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it’s such a weird, visceral experience. It’s like, it’s disorienting.
When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I’m grateful.
I will really go looking at memes and be crying sometimes.
Crying is scary to men! To us, it’s a sign that something completely earth-shattering is happening.
I’m a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives’ song is ‘Die a Happy Man.’
Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, ’cause his mind went back over the early days.
I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other’s faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.
Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don’t get upset; I’m all right.
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.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.
I took ‘P.S. I Love You’ thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.
I talked with labels and they wouldn’t help with my international career. They said, ‘Saara, if you’re in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.’ That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I’d go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.
We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don’t laugh, you cry. And I don’t feel like crying.
I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe – although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.
I shaved a quarter of my hair one time, and my poor nana was crying when I FaceTimed her, but I was like, ‘It’s just hair! It’s fun.’
I think that whenever we’re physical, not just in yoga, I think that physical exercise brings up a lot of emotional things. If someone’s in a spinning class, they might just start crying. That just happens.
At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, ‘OK, this is something I really like.’ At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, ‘Oh boy, here we go. We know what she’s going to do.’
I think that crying is a way women and men express frustration, anger, or passion. And we should not feel compelled to mute those emotions.
My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn’t work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.
If I’m not crying while writing a song, I’m not doing it right.
I do love to cry. I’ll cry at the drop of a hat. I’ll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven’t done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.
A guy came up to me in the park and asked if I wanted to buy his CD. I said sure. He got panicked and told me he didn’t actually have a CD, and he started crying and then told me he never made it and he’s really sorry and called me ‘Ralph.’ New York’s a really weird place.
We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can’t move. The demographic is mostly young men.
No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing – la la la la la – and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.
When I was growing up, I wanted to see girls like me on television and in movies – strong girls who aren’t crying over their relationships or whatever.
My story isn’t over… This is just a new part of my life. My baby is going to be in the stands – hopefully cheering for me and not crying too much!
I have the embarrassing thing where often if you’re watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette’s. So I end up often crying when I’m crying, and looking angry when I’m looking angry, so it’s pretty ugly.
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside… It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
I’m one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
I think I’d be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It’s nappies, crying, feeding.
I don’t often wear mascara in real life, but on-set or backstage, if I’m crying or even if my eyes get watery, I get a Q-Tip, and I wet it with a few drops of water. Then I go lash by lash and clean it up.
It’s a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven’t manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
I finished the rough draft of ‘Crying in H Mart’ in July of 2020. My editor had it for five to six months, so I was free from it for a little while. I decided to take that time to start working on a new album.
I was always putting on shows for my family or even just myself in the mirror, being a total psychopath, just screaming monologues till I was crying or laughing or a complete nut case. And then I went to college and got my degree in drama, but I’m very much a Type A.
On social media, you have a mask on where you are smiling, but you’re crying inside. And that was me.
Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene… For me, it’s therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.
It’s a crying shame we don’t play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.
What I would love to do is more telly comedy. I did a tiny bit in ‘Toast of London’ and was in one episode of Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan.’ I was crying with laughter.
You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don’t have a ticket.
Consider yourself your own kid. Take care of yourself the way you would your own child. You wouldn’t wait until your child was crying to take care of him/her.
When Mom died I couldn’t stop crying, but both Angie and I really believe she’s in a better place.
Directing is a whole series of things that would be awkward socially. But I love that. I love actors. Talking with them, touching, laughing, crying.
I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one – I’d probably just start crying.
Crying wolf is a real danger.
And that’s the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don’t, and you just have to deal with.
If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.
I was really embarrassed. And I asked why they took my picture when I was in such agony, and I’m the girl, in the moment that I was naked, burning, hopeless, crying – so ugly. And I asked why they took my picture at that that moment? I didn’t like it at all.
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, ‘I’m making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,’ but it also felt really good because I thought, ‘If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.’
I have the best entrance in all of professional wrestling for crying out loud.
My dad is amazing: he taught me everything I know about sales. He volunteered to be the Girl Scout cookie mom and gave everybody sales quotas, and basically, every girl went home crying because he was super intense.
I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it’s really amazing.
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn’t read. She would say: ‘You can do this. You just don’t want to do this.’
I think the whole movement of #MeToo is not just calling out the sexual harassers, which is really important, but also crying out that we want equal pay, equal representation, equal opportunities, and that we want to see more female directors and photographers.
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It’s like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.
McDonald’s says it’s phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.
Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, ‘Book Of Hours,’ there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I’m really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life – what Langston Hughes called ‘laughing to keep from crying.’
I don’t know what it’s like to be Cuban-American, but I know what it’s like to have family under Communism and to get up early in the morning and send medical supplies and try to send food and try to send money and have it intervened, and them calling and crying on the phone.
Even as a kid I remember seeing ‘Minority Report’ and just crying my eyes out. It was horrible what was happening to her. That was my mum!
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy – and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.
I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can’t answer it without crying. I think, You’re 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don’t know the answer yet.
I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I’m not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.
I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.
When I was 14 I had a trial for Tottenham. They were thinking of signing me but my mum said no. She said education comes first. Did I hate her at the time? You couldn’t imagine. I was crying and all sorts.
I wake up in the morning crying, and I’ll tell you why. It’s because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, ‘It’ll get better.’

I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled ‘Illusions.’ It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King ‘I have a dream’ speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
I’ve worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there’s not much else to do.
Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers’ natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn’t indicate pain or suffering.
Growing up, I didn’t have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.
The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.
You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.
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.
The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends – or guy friends, too, I guess – is that if you’re going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.
Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I’ll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.
We have to tell our babies to stop crying.
When I was young, around 5, I was crying in all the pictures of me. I did not like the flash; it scared me!
I hate when you go into a nice restaurant – someplace where you’re going to spend good money – and there are kids in there crying.
I don’t have a problem crying when I need to cry.
It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me.
I can’t lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.
I can’t say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it’s nice to spend half the day crying; then you don’t have to do it in real life.
There’s nothing wrong with crying and letting it out, sometimes it is the best way.
As an actor, I love to play a good crying scene.
There’s nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless… I’ve probably cried at work, but I’m limited with my crying: I’m the boss; I’m not really allowed to cry at work.
If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.
It’s no use crying over spilt summits.
There’s nothing wrong with crying and moaning, but you can do that for a minute and then you get on with it.
Whenever I hear people crying about Kobe yelling at people in practice or wondering whether or not LeBron is best friends with his teammates, I just roll my eyes. You know how many off-court conversations I had with the Zen-Master Phil Jackson in my entire time with the Lakers? One.
I’ve always said people say on a dramatic show, ‘I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.’ In comedy, the best thing you can say is, ‘I think it’s funny.’
I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It’s my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don’t like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.
I don’t get the romance of airports. Families crying while waving off a member destined for far -off shores to make a livelihood. The euphoric reuniting of couples as they run into each others arms at arrivals, while I am forced to watch on a reluctant interloper.
I can remember crying in the Kippax at Maine Road when City were relegated to the old First Division in 1996. Dropping out of the Premier League seemed like the worst thing imaginable – and what didn’t help was the fact United were winning just about everything going at the same time.
I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

It makes you feel like the pool is yours when you have your family there. You walk up to them and see them crying… and you know they are proud of you.
I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.
I believe there are millions of people across the country who are crying out for someone to stand up for liberal values.
It’s a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We’re more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
The Madonna tour thing was definitely funny that – you know, children were crying watching us… and it was interesting seeing how angry their parents were.
For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it makes you a strong director.
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?
As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, ‘What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don’t cry.’
I saw ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
Michael Owen’s wonder goal against Argentina in 1998 was one defining memory, and as a Sunderland supporter, I remember crying my eyes out after they lost that play-off final against Charlton. Much as that hurt, it made me realise how much I wanted to play the game.
You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.
I’m very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it’s not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
As a rapper, you’re taught and you practice being hard all the time. You’re not crying on your tracks, you don’t sound like Neyo singing an R&B song about what you’ve lost or whatever.
‘Field of Dreams.’ Definitely one of the best baseball films of all time. When Kevin Costner spoke to his dad, and his dad answered, I, um, I mean a lot of guys I know couldn’t help crying.
To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn’t stop till it was over.
I was voted Most Happy-Go-Lucky in high school. Can you believe that? I was crying every other day by myself, but I was voted Most Optimistic and Most Likely to Have Her Own Television Talk Show.
The release of ‘Lungs’ was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn’t remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to ’em in a minute.
There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct – crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
I don’t like crying. I’m a country boy, and we’re the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don’t cry.
I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from kindergarten, and she was watching TV because JFK – that Irish Catholic president that we loved – had been killed.
I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
Whenever there’s a crying kid, I have to make sure that the kid stops crying.

I spent a lot of time reading ‘Cosmopolitan’ and quietly crying.
Let’s face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever – the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you’re crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.
Americans like optimism, and ‘Once’ walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you’re crying.
The song ‘Laughing Down Crying’ is not a typical Daryl song.
And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you’ve written and you’re like, ‘Hmm, there’s half a page that’s good here.’ Then you throw out everything else.
It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
You don’t see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.
I saw Tina Turner do ‘Proud Mary’ on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that’s why I gravitated towards it.
I had a lot of challenges starting school, and my dad says I would come home every day crying and feeling bad about the problems I was having with some of the kids. And he would tell me to work hard on learning the language.
Women are surprised to see me on the street – like they’re seeing a ghost. There’s a lot of crying involved.
Everybody has been saying ‘Srimanthudu’ is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he’s never seen me perform like this. I just couldn’t stop myself from crying.
In regards to your love life, you’re just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you’ve never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you’re crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.
I can’t go on the court crying because then it’s a big advantage for my opponent, so I have to wipe my tears, have a good warm-up, feel the ball and then start grooving in the game.
I may do some cringey and crazy things, but for crying out loud, I have Nikki Bella calling me out.
There’s no crying in basketball.
When I’m at my lowest, when I’m crying uncontrollably, and I can reach out to one of my many people in my support network, it helps. I feel better.
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that’s always a possibility, and if you’re professional, then you deal with it professionally.
I’m not a goddess, for crying out loud. I’m a regular person who took feminism – which I have a deep connection to – and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.
I’m Latin, for crying out loud – I can’t hold anything back!
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
A baby’s existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you’re actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that’s a big deal. A very big deal.
Please, please, please – I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing – in my case, crying and dying – you are typecast.
This will be the fourth time I’ve seen this film. I’m very proud of it and I think it’s a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I’ve talked to has admitted to crying.
My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you’re living in the hood, you don’t live this life where you’re crying every day, downtrodden every day.
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they’re laughing or crying – that’s what makes me happy.
My role as Chitra is synonymous to my character in real life. If Chitra is crying or shouting or reacting in a certain way then Sudha would have reacted in the same manner.
I was depressed after the transplant because it’s very tough to understand the trauma you still face. I remember emptying a big bag of medication and just crying and thinking, ‘For me to survive another day, this is what I’ve got to take. For the rest of my life. I’m not sure I can continue.’
If I see my fans crying, I just want to give them a hug… and tell them I love them.
Acting is not hiding to me; it’s revealing. We give you license to feel. ‘Hey, she’s crying, so it’s okay if I cry, too.’ That’s the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that’s when you’re dead.
I’d always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn’t get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

People who win awards for drama and for crying their eyes out for two hours… it’s easy!
I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It’s pathetic.
Any time you can get Glenn Beck crying it’s a good thing.
When your best friend dies, and you’re crying on the balcony, and TMZ is taking pictures of somebody comforting you saying, ‘Ooooo, scandalous’ – that’s the worst part of fame.
The mere mention of domestic service brings some people out in spots of outrage, but there is a crying need for relatively low-level employment. It’s ridiculous that people at the top are killing themselves in demanding jobs and then coming home to mow their own lawns.
When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.
I’d been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn’t going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.
I’m in my father’s car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Famous Blue Raincoat,’ thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.
I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn’t know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn’t stop crying.
My problem starts when I see that in a situation when the girl is telling her feeling, say crying or laughing, the song is sung by a male singer.
I’m not really a crying type.
I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching ‘Bridesmaids’ and start crying.
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it’s a bit of a copout.
Dad couldn’t train me. He was too high-strung, like, ‘Throw your jab!’ and I’d start crying.
Now that was one thing, but from an actor’s point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he’s over-acting.
When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn’t want to go to school.
I used to come home crying at the beginning, ’cause I was playing against high-school guys, college guys, and I was like in the sixth grade, so it was tough.
I don’t fight with people – like, I can barely fight with my husband because I’ll just start crying instead.
Sometimes I feel like I’m taking on a role when I’m writing a song, and it doesn’t always have to be true. I’m not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that’s not me.
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying?
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
Once I got so worried because I had to hit my costar with a glass bottle that I began crying.
One doesn’t have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you’re born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that’s really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it’s a sign that you’re alive.
Being a mom makes it harder to find time to write and it gets harder to find time to sit down and do a vocal, because there’s a baby behind you crying.
I was going out with a few girls and we were in a local. A girl started shouting ‘Gogglebox’ at me and became really intimidating. I left but I lay awake crying, wondering if the girl knew where I lived.
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying or getting overly angry or to maintain control.