I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.
It’s good to have a free space to laugh and cry and get angry about gender and sexuality. That’s one of the things I am the most thankful for from my friends and my family. They’ve given me the place to freely have gender be a part of our discourse.
It’s never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
I tried to make a ‘When Doves Cry’ in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that’s the song I sent to Big Boi.
Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It’s making me cry. You know, maybe when I ask them, sometimes, like, ‘How does it feel to have a dad?’ And, you know, they tell me this great answers, and sometimes I wish my dad was here.
I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis do. I wanted to do that: to tell stories. I wanted to make people laugh, make people cry. I wanted to be a storyteller.
I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.
I’m someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot.
I cry at Kodak commercials.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
I believe in God, in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian… I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
The situation of America is new in the annals of mankind; her affairs cry haste, and speed must answer them.
‘Study’ was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
I mean, we’ve all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won’t come.
I’d love to go to Russia and silence that crowd and give the Russian fans something to cry about.
You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don’t have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
I don’t cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that’s really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.
It’s one of the things that ‘Everwood’ – what makes a great ‘Everwood’ episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we’ve always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can’t or don’t.
That moment in ‘Broadcast News’ where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it’s awful – I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn’t help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented.
I’m obsessed with Maggie Smith – the way that she can be the most brilliant actress in every single situation and then do Harry Potter, and still make me cry while she’s casting spells with a wand?
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.
When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.
Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
I’ve punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I’ve also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!
I would like to be remembered as a – somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who’s kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
The best comedians and the best rappers can make you laugh and can make you cry… I believe I’ve been blessed with that gift to make you do just that.
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.
It is not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.
I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions – we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.
I cry every chance I get.
I remember being about eight and watching ‘Pollyanna’ with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, ‘Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.’ She said, ‘You’re going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.’ So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
I cry whenever I watch an emotional scene that I did, just because it brings me back to that moment. It’s like, I remember being there; I remember feeling what I felt. It’s really weird, right?
Many times players have done stuff to me, like kick me. But I’m not a cry baby.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
I can’t speak for other people, but I still hate losing. When I did lose, I found it easier to yell than to cry. Guys aren’t supposed to cry, are they?
I cry all the time.
I’m definitely willing to film it for sure. I feel like I’ve taken people on this incredible journey on ‘Total Divas’ and ‘Total Bellas.’ They have seen me cry, get angry, and be so many different ways about marriage. I feel like for my fan base, my Bella Army, I should let them tune in to my wedding.
I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
If I don’t cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it’s failed.
Music has been my everything since day one. It’s been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It’s just beautiful to me.
Dumbo… makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.
I cry a lot because I miss people.
I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.
I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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.
Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.
I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
