A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

  • -- Italo Calvino 伊塔罗·卡尔维诺

经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。

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At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

起初,很难坐下来读人们在说什么。很多人会通过自己的努力达到这个职位,并在几年的时间里得到厚脸皮。但对我来说,这一切都发生在几个月之内。

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

我读到的一切。我总是在忙着写一本书,对此我真的很书呆子气,我读完书之后就什么都不记得了。但我读过各种各样的书,从古典到现代。

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

表演就是把你的意思说出来,所以对我来说,这些话总是很重要的。对我来说,很重要的是要了解我的台词,非常了解它们,以至于我不用去想它们。

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

当我发现故事书是由人写的,书并不是自然奇观,而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候,我感到既震惊又失望。

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

我很惭愧地得知,在美利坚合众国,出售一本书可以成为调查的对象,也可以成为刑事调查的对象。

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

我讨厌把我喜欢的书借给别人……

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

我很幸运能出演经典电影,这些电影将会流传下去。

The first chapter sells the book. The last chapter sells the next book.

第一章卖这本书。最后一章卖下一本书。

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

没有图书馆,我们还有什么?我们没有过去,也没有未来。

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

没有什么比一块糖和一本书更舒服的了。