I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

  • -- Julia Sweeney 朱莉娅·斯威尼

我认为,生活中最基本的任务之一——我们能为彼此做的一件好事——就是接受那些可怕而可怕的事情,让它们变得不那么可怕,如果可能的话,还要让它们变得有趣。在这方面取得成功感觉很棒。

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It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

对我来说,演戏很可怕。这是可怕的。但我一定是对恐惧带来的肾上腺素激增上瘾了。我想这就像蹦极。但当我完成它,我得到了这种巨大的满足感和压倒性的幸福感。

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

没有人感受别人的悲伤,没有人理解别人的快乐。人们认为他们可以互相联系。事实上,他们只是擦肩而过。

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

一个可怜的人,在矿井里挖面包或犁头,好让别人吃饱,他感到的疲劳,比那些不能思考或不能读书的人所感到的要轻。

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

很少有事情本身是行不通的;人之所以不能成功,与其说是条件不够,不如说是由于努力不够。

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

没有人能在他不喜欢的事业上取得成功。

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

一切都是可怕的,如果你看它。所以你必须活下去。