Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

  • -- Twyla Tharp 沙普

任何喜剧演员都是一个悲剧的灵魂。喜剧是使人得以生存的东西之一。尤其是当一个人处于情感分离的过程中,这是一个你可以处理它们的地方。

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I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

我现在喜欢做一个老漫画演员。这就像一个老足球或老棒球运动员。你进入了名人堂,这很好,但你不再是那个在聚光灯下做那件事的人。

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

希腊人在他们的悲剧中庄严地说:“没有人在死前被称为幸福的;”对此,我还要补充一句:“没有人在死前被称为不幸福的。”

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

生存下来的既不是最强壮的物种,也不是最聪明的物种。它是最能适应变化的。

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

当美德没有胜利,而人们仍然感到人比毁灭他的力量更高贵时,悲剧就会发生。

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

艺术只有放弃与众不同的权利,并将自己融入世俗的全能领域,才能生存下来。

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

我不是一个伟大的笑话作家,这对于一个喜剧演员来说很奇怪,但我不是。