How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

#1

How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 4:53pm

I wanted to know. I have never been able to really make myself cry unless I was very upset. Any suggestions?

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#2

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 4:58pm

I am the master of false crying.

I'm not sure how I do it. I get really into the moment. I used to think of kittens being murdered or something along those lines, and try to hold my eyes open to get those 'ole lacrimatics going, but now I just do it without having to think too hard about it. It comes with the territory of being a moany cry-baby.

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#3

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 5:02pm

I hate to sound like a smart ass, but if you mean to cry as an actor, I've always been able to just imagine myself as the person I'm playing, and it just happens--of course, I'm a walking bundle of nerves and it doesn't take much to get me to Frances Farmer level....

Just think: How would I feel?

#4

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 5:12pm

Go see the film Away From Her.

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#5

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 5:12pm

I listen to "Another Winter In A Summer Town" while picturing my mother being brutally murdered.

Or I get very, very, very drunk and talk to an ex-boyfriend (one of the few I still keep friendly with, of course).

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#6

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 5:16pm

I heard someone mention that song within the last hour or two on the board, I could swear. I'm off to do a search.

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The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

#7

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:26pm

It's from Grey Gardens you louse!

love, CQ

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#8

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:28pm

Gah! I struggle with this because I do not cry in real life. Literally haven't in about 6 or 8 years. Teach me your ways guys!

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#9

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 6:56pm

Yank out your nose hairs...

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#10

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 7:00pm

I read Cruel_Sandwich's posts.

#11

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 7:24pm

Emotional memory in acting

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#12

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 7:28pm

if I stay up past 10pm I cry. I get so emotional late at night.

#13

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 7:52pm

"Yank out your nose hairs..."

LOL. Honestly, if want to cry I can just start crying. I've always been able to do it, and I have to say when I was a kid it came in pretty handy sometimes lol.

#14

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 7:58pm

Personally, I cry too easily and I have to work NOT to cry because if you cry too early in a scene, you wear the audience out (or, worse, bore them).

An alternative is to not cry but have all the hallmarks of someone crying, hard swallowing, breathy gasps, husky voice, shaky lip or chin (used with care). You can appear an emotional wreck without actually shedding tears.

#15

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 8:06pm

It's very easy to make myself cry. I just think of the outfit Corine was wearing at last night's Drama Desk Awards.

Sad. Terribly sad.

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#16

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 8:24pm

I print out a Cruel Sandwich thread and keep it with me in the wings.

ETA - Oh, grr! I missed Patronus' post above. So much for having an original thought.

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Updated On: 5/21/07 at 08:24 PM

#17

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 8:26pm

This girl cried when she was Dorothy in Wizard Of Oz. I just want to know how to make myself cry if ever need be

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#18

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 8:56pm

I can cry on demand, without even thinking anything sad or depressing. It helped a few times when I was younger and wanted my way.

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#19

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 9:05pm

Being in the moment...and hoping I have a slight on set of allergies--as it makes it physically easier as I'm not a huge weeper unless I'm a total wreck. I use to be able to cry really easily as a child... very handy in getting yourself out of tough situations.

#20

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 9:07pm

DAMN YOU STEPHEN! You beat me to it!

seriously there is enough "ugly" on the planet today to make crying rather an easy thing to do

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#21

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 9:17pm

I think of Margaret O'Brien and her poor dead dog.

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#22

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 9:38pm

I think of something really really REALLY sad.

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#23

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/21/07 at 11:27pm

If I think of my mother dying, it works every time. Sometimes, if I'm reciting a line from a show, and get really into it, I just start crying.

I cry at random times in real life, but when I'm watching a show it's incredibly hard for me to cry. I've only ever cried twice because of the content of a show (once at Spring Awakening, not at the end but before Left Behind, and Journey's End).

#24

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/22/07 at 7:41am

onions or pepper spray.

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#25

re: How Do You Make Yourself Cry?

Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:39am

I concentrate on the role I'm playing and the scene I'm in, and then I ask myself... "What would Jesus do?"

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