"The more banal he is, the more terrifying he is. There is no doubt and I'll say without question that it was the most difficult thing I've ever done as an actor."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

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Now the question is "how does it expand" and "why is it so difficult for us to understand, accept, assimilate and live according to the fact that we can make a difference, if we understand that what we need to understand is how change happens.

问题是“它如何扩大“,以及为什么我们难以理解，我们能够做出改变这个事实,并接受，被同化以及据此生活，如果我们能了解我们需要理解的,是改变如何发生。

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