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Question: How do you cry on cue!?
I really want to learn how but its really difficult!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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It takes a lot of practice, but if you try it everyday it helps!. Think of something really sad, or make up something sad in your head and imagine it's real!. Then try to trigger your emotions and make yourself cry!. Because crying is a result of a very strong and sudden emotion you have to recreate that strong wave of emotions!. You can also try to really relate to what your character is going through, if you can think about how bad they must feel you may be able to create your own tears!. There are also special products that some directors use to help their actors create tears, then you just have to create the emotion behind your already flowing tears!. But the best thing I can tell you is to keep practicing, you can't just try the first time and expect it to work, it takes a couple times before you can get real tears out!. Good Luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

By knowing how to act!. If you do what an actor is supposed to be doing, you will cry on cue if the character is supposed to cry!. Read Tony Barr's Acting for the Camera, also good for stage acting, to learn what acting is!. YOu don't have to do all that phoney Stanislaski or Method crap of emotional memory!. Once you understand Barr, get a copy of How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin, who takes the technique a step further!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Take acting classes and learn a technique and you will learn how to do that!.

It's all about the choices you make and what you think about to give you the EXACT kind of emotion you need in a given scene!. Crying on cue is one thing, but the right kind of cry in the right moment can make all the difference in the world!. also, you will need practice!. I've seen people cry uncontrollably to the point that they can speak their lines clearly!.

So, back to classes!. If you want to perfect it, you need training from a qualified teacher!.

Good luck!

TonyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Scrunch up your face as if you were to cry first, then think of a really desperate, sad situation!. Or anything that would normally make you cry (being lonely, someone yelling at you, failing a test!.!.!.blah blah blah) and just focus on it as if it were real!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your can think about something that happened to you!.!.!.

Like when I want to i think about my adoption and how i dont know my dad and how many more times i will see my birth mom and siblings!.!.!.


something emotional!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

think of the saddest thing ever
or like
think a what would be the saddest thing ever
but as if it happends 2 you
and it effects youWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think of something sad ( like the Columbine and Virgina Tech shootings)

and I don't blink at the same time just in case my thing isn't sad enoughWww@QuestionHome@Com

think about the saddest thing that ever happened to you and force em through that!. or spray hot sauce in your eyes discretelyWww@QuestionHome@Com

think of something REALLY sad
once you get in the "zone" its hard to stop though lolWww@QuestionHome@Com