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It is extremely difficult to get tears streaming down your face. However, I know from personal experience that if you are really connected to the character and are living in the moment, then no one will really care whether you are actually crying. That being said, when I need to get to portray such an extreme emotion, there are several tactics that I use. It is important to keep in mind that what works for me might not work for you. Also, when you have to cry, the worst thing that you could ever do is think about actually crying- then it definitely won't happen.

What I do is stare very intensely on one thing- perhaps another character, or even down at my lap. I then say a very powerful phrase that would be true to the character/moment over and over in my head. For example, i once played a character who was being publicly humiliated. To get myself to cry, I thought of the phrase, "no one loves me." Just think of how much a line like that means. The more you think it, the stronger it should become. Then just relax, and allow whatever happens to happen. If you cry, great. But if you don't, people will swear that you were.

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