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.
May these crying quotes serve as a reminder that tears are not a sign of weakness but rather a testament to our capacity to feel deeply and authentically. Let us embrace the power of crying as a means of healing, growth, and connection. May we find solace and strength in our tears and discover the transformative potential they hold within us.
