I can't cry on cue...?

It's quite a handy thing to be able to do, but it's certainly not essential.

Only some of the actors I know can do it – many more can’t - and it's never affected their getting acting work.
It's really all about your acting.

As long as your voice, body language, movements, gestures, etc, are good enough, you can convince an audience that you're crying. On stage, no-one is close enough to notice real tears anyway, and to camera, there's always a make-up artist on hand to add fake tears.

It’s not a good idea to try to really get upset by thinking of something bad that really happened to you.
If you do that, you’ll be really crying, and then it’s easy to forget your lines, get mixed up or be unable to stop.

As you gain experience you may well find that through sheer imagination – really getting into your character – the tears will start to come. If you really feel what your character is feeling, that should get you crying. It's really a matter of talented acting - and acting really well.

But until you’re experienced enough to be able to do that - honestly - it's just not important.

All I would like to add is that you need to get in to a real acting school - one-to-one instructors are a waste of time and money. Real acting is about interacting and reacting to other actors - you can't do that with an instructor.

Since you tried everything then the one hint I have - stop worrying about it. Crying on cure is more of an acting trick than a demonstration of acting skill. It's not about being able to produce tears on cue - it's about being able to convey the emotion to the audience so they can experience it. Being able to produce tears doesn't mean that you're actually doing a good job of conveying the emotion. So stop worrying about the surface look - and go deeper.

By focusing on the tears at the emotional climax, you stop them from coming. The only times i've ever cried in acting I haven't thought about crying it has been due to the circumstances.

The worst thing is that crying all to often takes you out of the situation because you think.

"Why is she doing this to me?...Oh my god I'm welling up...Yes..YES!....why arn't I crying, come on. What have you stopped"

Where as probably if you'd have kept going and not worried about crying you'd have got there.


I also find that normally it is a singular thing that makes me cry. Try finding exactly what in the circumstances makes the character cry.

But your biggest problem at the moment, is that your expectation of tears is stopping you from crying.

I hope this helped.

Going to watch some touching movies or visiting those poor guys who have inspiring stories in the hospitals , orhpanges or anywhere. What's more, reading stories about how disabled people struggle for their life to make it worthwhile.