Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on… — 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
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For… — 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
