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I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.
Sanjay Dutt
Actor · Indian · b. 1959
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
Erika Slezak
Actress · American · b. 1946
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
Loretta Lynn
Musician · American · b. 1935
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Georg Solti
Musician · Hungarian · 1912 – 1997
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
Jasmine Guy
Actress · American · b. 1964
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
Albert Finney
Actor · British · b. 1936
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
Winona Ryder
Actress · American · b. 1971
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
Dennis Bergkamp
Athlete · Dutch · b. 1969
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Juliette Binoche
Actress · French · b. 1964
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
Peter Steele
Musician · American · b. 1962
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson
Model · American · b. 1953
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
Christine Baranski
Actress · American · b. 1952
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
Jeremy Irons
Actor · English · b. 1948
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
Musician · American · b. 1955
With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.
Margot Kidder
Actress · American · b. 1948
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
Gloria Estefan
Musician · American · b. 1957
I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.
Norma McCorvey
Celebrity · American · b. 1947
You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.
Heston Blumenthal
Celebrity · English · b. 1966
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
Tina Yothers
Actress · American · b. 1973
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
Red Skelton
Comedian · American · 1913 – 1997
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.
Toni Braxton
Musician · American · b. 1968
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
Jackson Browne
Musician · American · b. 1948
I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
George Clooney
Actor · b. 1961
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
Moon Unit Zappa
Musician · American · b. 1967
I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
Carroll O'Connor
Actor · American · 1922 – 2001
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth
Musician · American · b. 1950
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
William Shatner
Actor · Canadian · b. 1931
I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.
Dianne Wiest
I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.
Elisabeth Rohm
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
John Cleese
Actor · English · b. 1939
I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.
Jai Rodriguez
Actor · American · b. 1977
Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.
Maximilian Schell
Actor · Swiss · b. 1930
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
Vanessa Carlton
Musician · American · b. 1980
It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.
Seth Green
Actor · American · b. 1974
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
Jim Capaldi
Musician · British · 1944 – 2005
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
Mac Davis
Musician · American · b. 1942
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
Robert Ryan
Actor · American · 1909 – 1973
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
Daniel Craig
Actor · English · b. 1968
I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.
Nicole Kidman
Actress · b. 1967
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
Tony Hancock
Comedian · British · 1924 – 1968
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
Stacie Orrico
Musician · American · b. 1986
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
Kevin Spacey
Actor · American · b. 1959
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
Kathy Najimy
Actress · American · b. 1957
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.
Joan Allen
Actress · American · b. 1956
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
Natalie Imbruglia
Musician · Australian · b. 1975
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
Zhang Ziyi
Actress · Chinese · b. 1979