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> [I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/i-didn-t-realize-house-would-be-the-central-character-more-the-bitter/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

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> [When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/when-school-friends-would-think-about-appearing-on-stage-as-the-most/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

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## More by Hugh Laurie

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/it-s-a-terrible-thing-i-think-in-life-to-wait-until-you-re-ready-i/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/ideas-are-10-a-penny-it-s-the-execution-that-s-the-hard-thing-to-do/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/to-be-a-head-boy-you-have-to-be-very-clever-you-have-to-be-a-scholar/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/to-me-he-s-a-hero-he-s-not-polite-he-s-not-someone-you-want-to-take/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/people-will-survive-and-they-will-find-happiness-happiness-only-comes/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/it-alarms-me-to-think-of-all-that-i-have-read-and-how-little-of-it/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/this-was-the-tricky-bit-the-really-tricky-bit-trickiness-cubed/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [“We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/we-want-different-things-men-want-to-have-sex-with-a-woman-then-they/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/i-travel-to-work-on-my-motorcycle-so-it-s-jeans-boots-and-a-brown/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/i-just-read-an-800-page-history-of-the-scottish-enlightenment-and/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/the-only-good-thing-i-ve-ever-noticed-about-money-the-only-positive/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [“Plus laid aussi qu'un parking”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/plus-laid-aussi-qu-un-parking/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/i-was-too-shy-i-think-to-sing-publicly-it-takes-a-particular-kind-of/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/acting-is-largely-about-putting-on-masks-and-music-is-about-removing/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

> [“I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-laurie/i-said-no-thank-you-a-dozen-times-and-fuck-off-once/)

[Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-laurie/)

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