Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be. — 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