A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
表演与戏剧
Acting and the Theatre
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
真正的演员——就像任何真正的艺术家一样——与集体的心有着直接的联系。
Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.
演莎士比亚很累。你永远不能坐下，除非你是国王。
Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.
很少有人感冒时去看医生，而是去看戏。
All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.
所有的电影都曾经是“巨大的”。现在他们都是“弗兰克”。我想我更喜欢“巨大”。
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
戏剧天赋不是写作天赋，而是表达人际关系的能力。
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。
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。
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。
When the audience knows you know better, it's satire, but when they think you can't do any better, it's corn.
当观众知道你知道的更多，这是讽刺，但当他们认为你不能做得更好，这是玉米。
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
想要成功的人必须流汗。没有捷径可走。你必须有被恨的勇气。
We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
我们不像我们的祖先那样去(剧院)，是为了逃避现实的压力，甚至是为了证实我们对现实的体验。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
演员是在雪中雕刻的雕刻家。
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。
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
真正的悲剧可以被定义为这样一种戏剧作品:主人公外表上的失败被其人格的尊严和伟大所弥补。
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。
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
最优秀的演员不会让轮子露出来。