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.
“There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.”
“This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.”