“I have very little interest in endlessly telling people about my artistic process. It sounds like throwing yourself against a wall and crying. It's not interesting to most people. It's interesting to yourself. But it's your problem, not anyone else's.” PeopleLittlesProblemProcessSoundInterestInterestingCryWallArtisticThrowingArtistic Process Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.” PeopleWorldGivingI CanWatchesAudienceLaughingNiceCryTheaterMovedAround The World Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.” PeopleWantFeelsKindAbleBeautifulEmotionRecordsCryDiaries Author:Charli XCX
“I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.” PeopleWantGivingFallLaughingCryFalling In Love Author:Bonnie McKee
“All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.” PeopleKnowsHavensCryMajorityOscarsAcademy Author:Clint Eastwood
“People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.” PeopleWantStillsYoungFightingLeftCryCoupleMotivated Author:Lennox Lewis
“It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsCryLike YouEmbarrassedConnectingBeing SadEstablishing Relationships Author:Pete Docter
“Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.” PeopleMadeForeverCryTasteMiserableDramaticLike SomethingMade Me Cry Author:Alex Hirsch
“Two weeks after the arrested I was on the phone with my wife and we said a prayer and I was crying and just so happy, I can't even explain it. It was euphoric. People said I went from freedom my whole life to prison, but in reality, I went from imprisonment and bondage of sin and death my whole life, to finding freedom in a prison cell.” PeopleSaidI CanTwoWholeRealityPrayerSinWifeWeekCryFindingsPrisonPhonesMy WifeWhole LifeCellsBondageArrestedTwo WeeksImprisonmentEuphoricPrison Cells Author:Christian Hosoi
“Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?” PeopleIfsWantHumansDoeFeelingsAsksHurtLaughingCryLike YouDaughterLet MeWhat You WantWhy NotProstitutionOur DaughterYour DaughterNieceGrand Daughter Author:Annie Lobert
“How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling.” PeopleGivingI CanSometimesFeelingsLightActorsLinesHonestFrontsCryIncrediblesBeing HonestSeconds Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.” PeopleThinkingSongRoomsCryGuitar Author:Angel Olsen
“I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.” PeopleI CanDreamCareSleepCryTragedyYour DreamsWho CaresFollow Your Dreams Author:Lykke Li
“Me trying to kill people wasn't as bad as me tearing people down and making people cry and ripping them apart, because words never heal. That's what I've learned. I'd rather raise my son and tell him, "If you get in a fight with your friend, just punch him. Don't say anything, because the next day he doesn't get over that."'” PeopleIfsTryingFightingNextCrySonDown AndRaisesHealI've LearnedMy SonSay AnythingNext DayGet Over Author:Reginald Arvizu
“I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.” PeopleKnowsGuyEnjoyHurtSimpleLaughingHappenedHonestCryPleaseBeing HonestImpressedExpress YourselfSimple Guy Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.” PeopleKnowsMatterHomeHappensNightHouseWaterSecretTeamMiddleLove YouCryTerribleAnd LoveAskingNo Matter WhatGlassesFlatsTireMiddle Of The NightFlat TiresHome Team Author:Shauna Niequist
“I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."” PeopleShouldImportantRealShareCrySocialismGet BackShould IDisguise Author:Questlove
“I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".” PeopleKnowsNextCryPoetBabyBeerPerformingDancerFeathersFestivalsLiftingCinco De Mayo Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If I've been hurt, I'm not one of those people who can hide it or bury it deep within. I give myself time to work through it, cry, journal, pray, call my best friends. Then I try to take a step back and get perspective. I try to remind myself of all the positive things in my life and do my best to let it go.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingHurtStepsCryPerspectivePrayingJournalMy Best FriendLet It GoDeep WithinPositive ThingsBeen HurtI've Been Hurt Author:Kelly Stables
“Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.” PeopleKnowsWorldGivingLittlesEnoughBigsKidsNightNextNamesGoneCryOne DayFairsStandingEssenceLike MeKitchenAddressesMy SisterAbandonedIncidentsPolicemenBakersStanding ThereMidget Author:Maurice Sendak
“I've never seen Barack Obama as a progressive, just someone a bit more centrist, and not as right leaning as Hillary Clinton. Obama may make friends with a lot of K street lobbyists. The progressive blogosphere may be able to raise enough of a cry to persuade him that he doesn't need them, that he can get by with a few million people on the net financially supporting him.” PeopleNeedsMayEnoughAbleBitsMillionsStreetsCryRaisesClintonBarackProgressiveLobbyists Author:Rob Kall
“I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.” PeopleThinkingWantShowsMemoriesWonderfulFansCryEmotionalKissingConnectedMuseumsCheeksHugHug MeWonderful Memories Author:Betty Lynn
“The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.” PeopleIdeasHappensFashionCryProudPhotographMake You Cry Author:Nan Goldin
“The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are reacting shows me that everyone sees themselves in it. That is groundbreaking. Similarly people come up some older people that it is not their story but are just crying in our arms after a screening. They know what it was like to be bullied or struggled with their own identity trying to figure out who they are. It has really caught people's imaginations.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingStoriesShowsImaginationCryFiguresIdentityArmsCaughtCome UpDiverseShow MeMoonlightRespondingBulliedReactingScreeningOlder PeopleGroundbreaking Author:Andre Holland
“Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingDifferentEndsStoriesStageCarCryExampleKeysDadLosingJokesMy DadTricksUpsetDifferent WaysGirlfriendMy GirlfriendHaircutsCar KeysNew GirlfriendNew Haircut Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“From the conservatives, the - the battle cry for the last couple of years, especially from people like Ted Cruz, was repeal ObamaCare, every single word of ObamaCare. That is not the message from Donald Trump.” PeopleYearsLastsCryTrumpCoupleBattleMessagesObamacareCruzSingle WordBattle Cry Author:George Stephanopoulos
“I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say "Oh my god!" and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.” PeoplePersonsStillsSometimesEyeStreetsCryKissingIntenseLocks Author:Marina Abramovic
“Insofar as Trumpism was understood, it was seen as a side-effect of poverty, ignorance and educational failure. A cry from people who deserved sympathy, but who should never be allowed to set the terms of political debate.” PeopleShouldPoliticalSidesTermPovertyEffectsCryIgnoranceUnderstoodEducationalDebateSide EffectsPolitical Debates Author:Fraser Nelson
“On some level students are essentially the same. They are people with fears and dreams. They laugh and cry over many of the same things. They share an essential humanity as young people always have.hey differ in some significant ways now, too, I believe. They are forced to grapple with complex issues at a much younger age.” PeopleWayBelieveDreamAgeYoungHumanityI BelieveLevelsLaughingIssuesShareCryStudentsEssentialsComplexesSignificantHeyFears And Dreams Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When the family came out, that made me cry, and the reason I had a hard time leaving Grant Park was that to see a million people like that, feeling the way that million people felt, was so exhilarating.” PeopleWayYearsMadeHardReasonFeelingsFoundFeltMillionsCryLeavingParksHard TimesFortyGrantsJailBloodyBeatenExhilaratingMade Me Cry Author:Bill Ayers
“As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability to boost total spending by enough to put people back to work. As it happens there are long lists of important public projects that cry out to be done.” PeopleLongImportantDoneEnoughGovernmentHappensAbilitySituationCryTaughtProjectsSpendingListsMotiveEntityTaught UsBoost1930sBack To WorkKeynes Author:Robert H. Frank
“This is how we honor 53 dead, innocent people who had nothing to do with their deaths. They just were in the wrong place at the wrong time, when a bigot decided to take 'em out. And all of a sudden we're judging the aftermath as to whether or not [Barack] Obama's an effective president? For crying out loud!” PeoplePresidentCryJudgingHonorDecidedInnocentBarackLoudEmsAftermathBigotsWrong Time Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you have questions about how people earn their wealth, for crying out loud, the Clintons have a way of doing it that virtually nobody else could parlay.” PeopleIfsWayWealthCryClintonLoud Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtSometimesLaughingCryComplicatedReactions Author:Nicole Kidman
“When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensMadeSaidDoneBigsJoyAsksInterestingPartyLaughingSawsLandCryMetsMessGarbageGood WayAssessmentBirthday PartyForeign Lands Author:Bette Midler
“I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.” PeopleLaughingCryMaking People LaughBragging Author:Eminem
“You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there's an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for. I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don't see in this world.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsTryingArtFeelingsBeautifulEnergyMagicMysteryRocksCryThis WorldHappeningsArt IsThings HappenSubtleBeautiful Things Author:Willow Smith
“We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you see something or someone beautiful, the next time you hear it, it sounds different. So you can't cling to beauty; beauty passes and when that passes, you realize you pass too, and you will die. And that's why people cry at a beautiful view, a beautiful lecture, a beautiful painting, a new baby.” PeopleIfsDifferentBeautifulDiesNextSoundRealizingViewsCryPaintingBabyNext TimeLecturesNew BabyBeautiful Paintings Author:Pat Steir
“Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.” PeopleKnowsWorldCryTearsAdultsDeserveProtectionHorribleLayersHomelessHorrible ThingsHomeless People Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.” PeopleEffortCryBabyWhat If Author:Jamie Dimon
“People of relatively low intelligence can be morally wonderful if they desire the right and the good (not necessarily under the description "right" or "good"). Their low intelligence sometimes results in their accidentally doing something wrong, but doing something wrong out of low intelligence alone is like stepping on a person's foot because you are (literally) blind or missing a cry for help because you are (literally) deaf. We do not judge the blind or deaf person as morally bad.” PeopleSometimesHelpingDesireWonderfulMissingCryJudgingBlindDeaf Author:Nomy Arpaly
“I find the way the left comes up with these analogies interesting. Trump is a child. We can't have a child run our country. The whole left has been turned into nothing but a bunch of people who never got out of day care, for crying out loud! They still live their lives as adults as though they're still in day care.” PeopleChildrenCountryCareRunningInterestingCry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No. I think you have to graduate to some higher level of TV IQ for people to actually want to see you cry.” PeopleThinkingTryingCryGraduates Author:John Flansburgh
“I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel. You've got to engage people. All that we do and believe in is engaging people to touch, to heal, to look at each other's eyes, to feel with each other, to cry with each other, to moan, to groan, to rejoice, to be happy.” PeopleBelieveEyeCryHealRejoice Author:Cecil Williams
“This album - Pain Medicine - is diverse enough and healing enough to help people get through real life sh*t whether it be through laughing at a dude because he's wack in the bed or it be through a record like when crying is easy where you explore what isn't in life that will make you happy. Real recognize real.” PeopleRealEnoughHelpingPainEasyHealingLaughingCryReal LifeDiverseMake You Happy Author:K.Michelle
“I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn them to tears... it's a weird way of making a living making people cry, but I think it's very exciting to be able to send audiences on a rollercoaster ride.” PeopleThinkingAudienceLaughingComedyCryTearsHumourDramaExcitingWitRollercoaster Author:Nigel Cole
“LATE will always be the most important song to me. I used to struggle to perform it live without getting upset but have performed it a lot now, which has really helped. Very often it makes people in the audience cry, and that means so much to me that they can relate to the emotions in the song. It was actually a really easy song to write, I wrote most of it in one day... it sort of flowed out of me. I was never good with dealing with emotion, so I think I kind of needed to write it!” PeopleThinkingWritingKindMeanImportantSongEasyEmotionAudienceStruggleCryOne DayUpset Author:Roxanne Emery
“Being sociopath is not what most people would consider to be winning. Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win, to make sure that this person does what they're trying to coerce him or her into doing. It can be as disgusting and as simple as making a child cry. Or it can be as complex as making your wife feel bad about herself.” PeopleThinkingTryingMindKindChildrenDoneWinningGoalTermSimpleWifeCryDisgustingSmall ThingsSociopath Author:Martha Stout
“I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to express my feelings. My father left us when I was a kid and I just shut down all of my emotions. I wasn't talkative; I didn't know how to communicate with people. I tried to separate from people. After I got into the classes I found a way of expressing myself through characters. I can cry behind a character, I can shout behind a character and it became a relief. And it's fun.” PeopleCharacterFeelingsKidsFatherFunActingEmotionCryTrainingCommunicateTalkative Author:Tony Leung Chiu Wai