Quote: I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many brilliant actors around that one more twit like me joining the back of the queue seems completely unnecessary. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: 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 a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to become a fake version of my own father. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: So he came back at 40 ... with a science degree, thinking, `Well, what am I going to do now?' and with two kids, he enrolled in medical school with a lot of 19-year-olds, ... an amazing thing. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: How did I do that? It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: Everyone else can just lump it. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: He worked as a doctor for 30 years and as far as I know, never stood up in front of millions of people and got a gold shiny thing for it, which seems ridiculous someone who pretends to do that should be honored and recognized, but it's a crazy world, you know? [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: Really? I suppose reading the confidential psychiatric file of his ex-girlfriend. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: ?I find it preposterous. I can see in some ways I am playing a sexy character. The idea of a damaged genius is an interesting, intriguing character, but it has nothing to do with me . . . I think whoever is playing this role would be in the position I am now. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: I'm just going to draw out three at random, and everyone else can just lump it. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: Mr. and Mrs. Little have won tonight! [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibly time-consuming, ... Every scene for me is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick this up, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed. I find that much more constricting than walking with a limp. Actually walking with a limp is not that troubling. But to be one-handed, to drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in, and open a door and answer a telephone -- it all becomes incredibly time-consuming. Every scene, for me, is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick up this, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. But, you know, you adapt incredibly quickly. Human beings do. We're very quick [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: There's the clown in House, there's an adolescent in him, a child, a playful side. There's also a tormented self-destroyer as well. I get the best of all possible worlds. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: I just feel like that's a young person's game. It's partly because you spend your whole time mocking authority figures, and once you reach the age where you could be a general or a bishop or a politician, it means something different. It stops being the kid in class doing impressions of the teacher. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: We're getting a lot of air miles, ... I'll go back when I can, and they'll come here when they can. But it's tough. [Hugh Laurie]
Quote: Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is going to see the best person for the job. [Hugh Laurie]