Character Quote by David Seltzer

If you cry too much on screen, you're crying for the audience.

— Chris Messina

A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or…

— Anonymous

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

— Anne Hathaway

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

— Ryan Reynolds

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads…

— Richard Wright

Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect.

— Henry Mancini

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

— Julian Fellowes

Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like,…

— Karamo Brown

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way…

— Drew Barrymore

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

— Kiefer Sutherland

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet…

— Melissa Leo