Hugh Laurie

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.'…

— Hugh Laurie

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who…

— Hugh Laurie

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

“Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things…

— Hugh Laurie

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

— Hugh Laurie

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

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the…

— Hugh Laurie

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at…

— Hugh Laurie

Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills…

— Hugh Laurie

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel,…

— Hugh Laurie

“There once was a man who went to see a psychiatrist, crippled by a fear of flying. His phobia was based on…

— Hugh Laurie

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

— Hugh Laurie

“It’s good that you feel bad,’ she said, after some thought. Not much thought, obviously, but some. ‘If you felt nothing, it…

— Hugh Laurie

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

— Hugh Laurie

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

— Hugh Laurie

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I…

— Hugh Laurie

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often…

— Hugh Laurie

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the…

— Hugh Laurie

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always…

— Hugh Laurie

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

— Hugh Laurie

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

It's a holy city for music.

— Hugh Laurie

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

— Hugh Laurie

I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond…

— Hugh Laurie

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in…

— Hugh Laurie