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.

If you’re lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you’re someone who’s got a family that’s all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that’s a very sad place to be.

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.

All you’d have to do is get a sad look, and he’d try to do something for you.

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.

Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

If Michael Steele doesn’t make you sad, well, then there’s radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.