I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

  • -- Steve Martin 史蒂夫·马丁

我意识到当时的喜剧演员都是靠笑话和妙语来表演的。当你说到笑点的时候,观众要么真诚地笑,要么自动地笑,要么不笑。使我烦恼的是那种不由自主的笑声。我说,那不是真正的笑。

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That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

这就是为什么有一天我说我的游戏会像勾股定理一样——很难算出来。很多人都不知道勾股定理。他们不再喜欢我了。他们不想再那样做了。

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

真正的宿醉并不需要尝试家庭疗法。真正宿醉的唯一疗法是死亡。

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

音乐会必须被视为一个真正的活动,其目的是试图养活每一个人。

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

你并不是每天都做一些从未做过的事情。