| English | Russian |
| Barnum was not simply the Prometheus of the Pleasure Principle, as his admirers portrayed him... He began his career... as an act of criticism, he ended it as a yea-sayer | Барнум был не только Прометеем развлечений, как его рисовали поклонники... Он начал свою карьеру ... с критики, а закончил безоговорочным конформистом. (N. Harris) |
| Like most great film makers, he began as an artist, and was gradually overwhelmed by the need to prove himself as a businessman. He was not only harassed by the need to marry God and Moloch in his work, he was harassed by the need to marry them in himself. | Подобно большинству великих кинематографистов, он начинал как художник, но постепенно поддался необходимости утвердиться как бизнесмен. Вынужденное поклонение и Богу, и Молоху разъедало не только его искусство, но и душу. (Ch. Higham) |
| now I begin to see that | теперь начинаю понимать (Alex_Odeychuk) |
