A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
表演与戏剧
Acting and the Theatre
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
这出戏很成功，但观众却是一场灾难。
Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.
演员-经理-一个人谁的部分大于整体。
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
演戏不是感情用事，而是能够表达感情。
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
随着歌舞杂耍的崩溃，新的人才已经无处容身。
If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.
如果你给观众一个机会，他们会为你表演一半。
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。
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
演员就是这样的人，如果你不谈论他，他就不会倾听。
Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
不去剧院就像没有镜子的厕所一样。
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
每个演员心里都相信所有关于他的坏消息。
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
除非照相机是诗人脑袋里的一只眼睛，否则电影永远不会真正好。
When actors begin to think, it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
当演员们开始思考时，是时候改变了。他们不适合做这件事。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience and each must give something.
在剧院里你需要三样东西——戏剧、演员和观众，每个人都必须有所贡献。
I sometimes wish they would swagger more now, buy bigger overcoats and wilder hats, and retain those traces of make-up that put them outside respectability and keep them rogues and vagabonds, which is what, at heart - bless 'em - they are.
我有时希望他们现在能更神气些，买更大的大衣和更狂野的帽子，保留那些让他们显得不体面、让他们成为流氓和流浪汉的化妆品痕迹，而这正是他们的内心——上帝保佑他们——的真实面目。
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。
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
讽刺是星期六晚上的尾声。
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
戏剧是把枯燥的部分剪掉的生活。
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
戏剧应该给你一些思考的东西。当我第一次看到一部戏剧并理解它时，我就知道它不会有多好。