When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them.
“We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.”
“It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.”