sir lawrence olivier, on acting

"Acting is to an actor what water is to a fish. It's the context of our daily lives-- the space we inhabit and the great sustaining factor we need to survive. Taking acting away from an actor is like pulling a fish into a boat. Surely I jest, you say? Well, let me simply say that once upon a time a certain director who shall remain unnamed decided to give Joseph Cotton a blank script during a read through. Dear Josie started flopping around, gasping for air, collapsed and eventually defecated on set right in his trousers. We all thought it a great bit of improvisation, but it turned out he'd had a seizure and died. I ended up screwing his widow. Life's funny that way."

Interview with British Acting Guild Journal, September 1968

timothy geithner, on the financial crisis

"Yes, critics have certainly argued that the regulatory agencies and watchdogs should have seen the financial crisis coming and instituted proper measures to avert further escalation. But that argument is based on the mistaken belief that government officials actually do their jobs. They don't. In fact, they can't. No one can. The real world, the labyrinth of the global money grid, is far too complex for any so called regulatory agency to hold anything more than fictive power. Believing that the government could lord over such chaos is, to quote Harry Truman, not only retarded, but retarded.'

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, June 28, 2009, testifying before the House Committee on Financial Services.

jane goodall, on gorillas

"I like gorillas, primarily because there is very little subterfuge in their society. When an alpha male is angry, for example, the rage in his eyes is unmistakable. In human society, such rage is often masked and transmuted into elaborate, destructive schemes. Gorillas, in this sense, are all 'tell', which also makes them extremely easy marks in any card game. I put myself through graduate school with the winnings I made off of Coco, who, god bless her, couldn't bluff to save her fucking life."

Jane Goodall, May 20, 1984, Commencement Address at Tufts University.