You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.