"And when you're being paid hundreds of dollars to cry when they say cry - you're in trouble if you can't produce the tears forthwith! So I invented my own technique for creating tears when I needed them - I buried my mother mentally. I went through the whole funeral ceremony. And because I adored my mother, this unfailing brought on tears. I used to feel a little guilty about it afterward and try to make up to her by bringing her a gift. But she was on to my technique and whenever I brought her something special she'd say - "Uhuh been burying me again, I see."

(Leatrice Joy, nome completo Leatrice Joy Zeidler, star del cinema muto; New Orleans, 7 novembre 1893 – New York, 13 maggio 1985)