Hugh Laurie

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

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

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I…

— Hugh Laurie

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

“I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit.”

— Hugh Laurie

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I…

— Hugh Laurie

When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the…

— Hugh Laurie

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that…

— Hugh Laurie

“Then there are the books that shine in my memory, milestones along the horizontal course of my life. I remember not just…

— Hugh Laurie

“Americans have never really caught on to the idea of eating sheep. I think they think it's cissy.”

— Hugh Laurie

The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.

— Hugh Laurie

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here…

— Hugh Laurie

I am very, very aware at all times. I'm watching myself, I'm listening to myself, I'm judging myself, critiquing myself all the…

— Hugh Laurie

“The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (...) This is a truth…

— Hugh Laurie

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

— Hugh Laurie

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it…

— Hugh Laurie

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

— Hugh Laurie

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

— Hugh Laurie

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

“I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand,but when you've had to play chess twice a day…

— Hugh Laurie

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

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

— Hugh Laurie

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

— Hugh Laurie

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

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me…

— Hugh Laurie