It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

让观众笑比让观众哭难。

 

Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicked thing to say because it put such an onus¹ and such an responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry.

有些评论家说我是个伟大的女演员，我认为这个说法并不好。因为这样我将承担一些超出我能力范围的义务与责任。

 

That's one of the two words in the English language I most detest²: pretty and the other is beautiful. 

我最不愿听到的字眼有两个，一是漂亮、二是美丽。

 

I have always believed that if you want something with your head soul you get it. 

我相信如果你全心全意的想要某样东西，你实际上已经得到了。

 

My birth sign is Scorpio and they burn themselves out and eat themselves up and they are careless about themselves-like me. I swing between happiness and misery³ and I cry easily. I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism. I am part prude and part non-conformist and I say what I think and dissemble. I am a mixture of French, Irish and Yorkshire, and perhaps that's what it all is.

我是天蝎座的人，天蝎座的特点是喜欢竭尽全力去做事但却总是疏忽了自己，这一点真的与我很相象。当我在快乐与痛苦的两端游走时，总是很容易感伤哭泣。我继承了母亲的坚强意志与父亲的乐观精神。我既有遵循旧礼又不愿过分墨守成规。有时我会选择直接表达自己的想法，但隐忍也是我的性格。杂糅着来自法国和爱尔兰约克郡的血统，或许，这就是我。

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