Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

电视是一种娱乐媒介,它使成千上万的人在同一时间听同一种笑话,但仍然感到孤独。

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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

我想知道人们会如何看待我成为一名乡村音乐歌手。我想过要偏离这一点,唱点别的。但是…对我来说,试图成为我不是的人是没有意义的。

Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.

当然,我也有过不开心的时候,但每个人都有。但人们不会像我一样谈论他们,除非他们对治疗师这么说。人们不会像我一样把它们写在报纸上。

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

每个人都听过同样的笑话一百万遍,也知道其中的设置。他们厌倦了网络上的大众娱乐。

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

看电视的好处在于,你可以不止一次地了解你所扮演的那个人是谁。

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.

人们倾向于把说的话当笑话来认真对待,把说的话当笑话来认真对待。

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

电视使我烦恼的是,它往往使我们的思想从我们的思想。

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

我们有四千万的理由失败,但没有一个借口。

When you get mad, it's the time you lose.

当你生气时,那是你失去的时间。