Faye Dunaway Quotes

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own.

I don't even like to cry in private.

I don't really cry.

Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

I'm a big crier. I never cry when something is painful, but I cry if things are frustrating. Like if I'm trying to do something, and I mess up over and over. If I'm playing a video game, and I can't beat a level that I've tried 10 times, I'll cry. When I was a kid, I think I cried for every practice from 2003 to the middle of 2006.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.