To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House'… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
