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.
For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they’re thinking inside.
It’s amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son’s hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I’ll be like, ‘Ahhhh! How can you love this much?’
I haven’t ever had so many women come up to me and tell me that I made them cry. And they’re smiling about it, which is kind of an odd thing. Usually it’s not a good thing.
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
Not all of those who cry ‘The poor, the poor!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
I cry all the time when I watch ‘Glee’ because I don’t know if it’s satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.
I stood up to Beto O’Rourke because no one else was doing it. I stood up for the liberties of Americans, and it became a national rally cry for our Second Amendment.
People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
I’m not cynical. I cry at ‘ET.’ And ‘Kung Fu Panda!’
For a long time, I couldn’t cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.
The ‘Ponyboy’ single is coming out next because it’s the other bit of the pole of the record. Sort of everything I’m interested in happens on that axis – everything I’m interested in this material happens on that axis, and so I was really excited to tour ‘It’s Okay to Cry’ and ‘Ponyboy.’
I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
We always say in the Obama world, in the toughest times, you can laugh or you can cry, so you might as well laugh.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
I think it’s almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he’d cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.
I had a slight touch of Tourette’s, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.
When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, ‘I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.’
I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.
I just want to tell you what it’s like not to have Planned Parenthood… you have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won’t cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fruits and vegetables because they’re expensive.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
My first job, I worked at ‘YM’ and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.
I don’t watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry… and miserable. I think it’s awful.
Brazil hates me. Oh, big deal. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and walk over it.
It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win – and my first pay check – I cried. All these things make me cry.
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh all the time, and I cry during the one funeral. But I’ll say that ‘Monsters, Inc.’ is a movie that really gets me super-emotional. Especially the ending.
My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that ‘Sit Here and Cry’ is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske’s reel, I knew he was going to get it.
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.
I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
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.’
You want to know how I’m feeling? Just look at me, and I’ll tell you how I’m feeling. Nothing is hidden. I’m all out there. I cry like a baby, I get upset, I stamp my feet. I’m not stoic.
When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
As for my career, I always said to my kids, ‘you don’t cry because it’s over, you’re happy because it happened.’
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.
I love playing serious! That’s a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can’t just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.
Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.
I would cry if I met Bruce Springsteen, man. I don’t think I’d be able to handle it.
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn’t think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don’t have that. We have theatre where there’s always the chance for you to face things within yourself.
I’ve always said it’s interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.
I always say if music can’t make you cry, you’re a hopeless case. I don’t cry very much myself, but it’s my job to make you cry.
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
