People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel,… — 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
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that… — 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
