Hugh Laurie Quotes

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

Lie, Run, Lunch

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Hugh Laurie

Good, Happy, Hate

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Hugh Laurie

Morning, Through, Free

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.
Hugh Laurie

Time, Thinking, Done

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.
Hugh Laurie

Water, Gone, Tequila

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
Hugh Laurie

Hope, Self, Forgive

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
Hugh Laurie

Cannot, Coffee, Once

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
Hugh Laurie

Happiness, Find, Looking

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

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
Hugh Laurie

Home, Working, Away

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
Hugh Laurie

Life, Remember, Cannot

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
Hugh Laurie

Happiness, Someone, Ease

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
Hugh Laurie

Love, Men, Feeling

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie

Happiness, Good, Someone

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
Hugh Laurie

Yourself, Whole, Idea

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

Actually, Angeles, Los

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

Food, Hate, Bring

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.
Hugh Laurie

Dad, Off, Since

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
Hugh Laurie

Actually, Arts, Cinematic

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
Hugh Laurie

Head, Clever, Boy

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
Hugh Laurie

Able, Exciting, Pretend

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.
Hugh Laurie

Him, Flower, Talk

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 remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
Hugh Laurie

History, Single, May

Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.
Hugh Laurie

Life, Good, Play

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
Hugh Laurie

Success, Happiness, Suffering

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Nationality: British

Born: June 11, 1959

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