I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I… — 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
I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study,… — 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
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
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it… — 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
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one… — 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
Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm… — 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
When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember… — 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
