"Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world."

“One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.”

“Everyone wants to get a piece of me.”

“To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.”

“I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.”

Source : "James Clapper Hails Checks And Balances While Treating Oversight “Too Cute By Half”, www.emptywheel.net. June 10, 2013.

“No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.”

“Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1963). “Improvisation for the theater: a handbook of teaching and directing techniques”

“Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.”

“It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great way for Ace to get [its] message out.”