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“In order to put it into perspective, as an actor, it's super hard to get on a TV show. If you get on one, it's super hard for that show to be reasonably successful. All of that, on paper, seems pretty special. It's the sum of the parts, really. To roll the dice and come up with this particular show is pretty fortunate. I'm very happy about Silicon Valley series. It's changed everything for me.”
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“The ability to adapt is everything!”
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“We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.”
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“I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.”
Source : Speech, July 1987.
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“Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.”
Source : Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.”
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“Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.”
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“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.”
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“Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.”
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“The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.”
Source : "US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2010. 
