Meryl Streep Quotes

I cry every chance I get.

When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.

I'm a really emotional person so I cry for everything.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

I'm happy to announce to the world that I'm a crier. It doesn't take a lot for me to cry at stuff.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

What happened, then? You're stomping through every puddle you can find and look like you're going to punch the first person you see." "Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?" "Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.