A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
表演与戏剧
Acting and the Theatre
Acting is happy agony.
演戏是快乐的痛苦。
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
讽刺是星期六晚上的尾声。
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
演员是唯一诚实的伪君子。
A play visibly represents pure existing.
戏剧明显地代表了纯粹的存在。
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
戏剧是把枯燥的部分剪掉的生活。
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
演员是在雪中雕刻的雕刻家。
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
最优秀的演员不会让轮子露出来。
I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.
我汗。如果有什么事情对我来说很容易，我不信任它。
Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.
电影制作已经成为一种歇斯底里的妊娠。
I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.
我知道这很棒，但我不知道我是怎么做到的。
The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'
任何表演者的全部动机都是“看着我，妈妈”。
Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.
首演之夜是戏剧准备开演的前一天晚上。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
表演是吸收他人的个性，并加入自己的一些经验的问题。
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
由于增加了钥匙孔的尺寸，今天的剧作家们正面临着取消这扇门的危险。
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
戏剧的结构总是关于鸟儿如何回家栖息的故事。
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
一个好的戏剧评论家是一个能洞悉他那个时代的戏剧的人。一个伟大的戏剧评论家也能看到没有发生的事情。
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
最好的观众是聪明的，受过良好教育的，还有一点醉意。