Cory Booker Quotes

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

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

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

I am very emotional, and I get really upset when any of my films flop. I also get hurt over silly things. That is the way I am; I can't help it.

I was a sensitive kid.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

My family was extremely progressive. My parents had a love marriage, but they separated when I was two years old. I moved to Delhi with my mom, who got involved with the family business.

I think I definitely get my soft side from my mother.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

I think coming from a big family, it helps you to keep your sense of humor about certain things... even politics.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

I cry when I don't get food on time. I am not cranky but have the heart of a child. I cry and laugh at most times. I have the sensitivity of a child.

I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of that from television and books - from being, essentially, an only child. I'm my mom's only child and my dad's fourth child, but separated by 14 years.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

I'm an athlete, my job is not negotiating, it's not my field of expertise. I'm an emotional guy - it's normal, a lot of athletes are, and we're very susceptible to get our ego cut because of that.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.