It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
My friends and family were also in tears with my decision to quit as they all loved me in Bidaai.’
I was eating cereal on my couch when I saw the first commercial for ‘The Wiz’ on TV. I dropped the spoon and the tears came out of nowhere.
The lyrics of ‘Ekla Akash’ brought tears to my eyes.
The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that’s it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I’ll always have the memories of that with me.
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold – we don’t interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don’t scream in your face with tears – we go home and cry on our own.
Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.
I got the script for ‘Real Steel.’ I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It’s not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, ‘Man, we don’t make movies like this anymore.’
To talk about the ’60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age – it doesn’t matter whether you are 20 or 60.
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people’s souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
I remember my dad took my ice skates. One day I asked my mum: ‘Where are my ice skates?’ because I loved to skate in the winter. And she said through tears: ‘Dad is selling them now… we don’t have money for this week.’
I’ve been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn’t get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
Red Skelton… I broke into tears when I met him.
Well, for me, my favourite ‘Indiana Jones’ is ‘The Last Crusade,’ because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that’s my favourite one.
The only formula we have when we work together is that we both have to have a product we can endorse when we finish. Something we both like. It’s a matter of compromise. In the end what you get is what both of us can agree on. In that comes Tears for Fears. I don’t know what the mix or magic is, that’s just what it is.
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
If I can bring you to the point where you’re almost in tears one minute and laughing so hard the next and you’ve healed a bit at the same time, that’s when I get to use the gift I was given.
Don’t mistake my tears for weakness.
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
It doesn’t matter what you make – if you create a movie or build a car or whatever, it’s the amount of blood, sweat, and tears and money and everything that goes into it that needs to be rewarded.
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness’s ‘Independent People’ without wetting the pages with tears.
Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven’s ‘Eighth’ does?
I have to tell you, I’m not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it’s like, ‘Oh please, get a room.’
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn’t dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
And that’s why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We’ve seen them in a million movies and it’s too much like cranking the tears out. I didn’t want that scene.
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I’m not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.
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.
If you go back and look at President Reagan’s speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn’t acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.
Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
I vividly remember sixth grade. It’s the year when kids turn mean, and it’s definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.
I’ve put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.
Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.
A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.
Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it’s almost always better to laugh than to cry.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, ‘Tue es belle,’ which means, ‘you are pretty,’ and I thought he said, ‘Tu es poubelle,’ which means, ‘you are the trash can.’ I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.
When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation… Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.
By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.
