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I don't really understand why...

I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

I have resolved to pick one n...

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 146 quotes

Humility was considered a gre...

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

To be able to pretend to be s...

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

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One of the principal goals in...

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

Seems to me that this busines...

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

I grew up with an impatience ...

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.

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I hate menus, I hate choosing ...

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

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You hope that your teenage sel...

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

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

I just read an 800-page histor...

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 146 quotes

I admit I can't shake the idea...

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.

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People will survive, and they ...

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

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

Some people are drawn naturall...

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

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I was shown into a room. A red...

I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don't know why they'd decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture. It could rain in a room this big.

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There is almost no such thing ...

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

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The only good thing I've ever ...

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 it to buy things.

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

To tell you the truth, the old...

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

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It was the sheer variety of th...

It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

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There's an undeniable pleasure...

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.

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Keep on being yourself....

Keep on being yourself.

Hugh Laurie 146 quotes

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