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Hugh Laurie Biography

James Hugh Calum Laurie, CBE (UK: /ˈlɒri/; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.

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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.

Boy, Boys, Doubt, Introspection, Self, Wish

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.

Water, Gone, Tequila, Set, Instrumental

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

Actually, Army, Dad, Spain, Understand

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.

Beautiful, Climbing, Metaphor, Sports, Undeniable

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

Listen, Music, Piano, Player, Think, Thinking

I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't believe this is all there is'. And I thought: 'Wait a minute. You're Mel Gibson. You have millions of dollars. You're a great-looking chap with every conceivable blessing that could be bestowed upon a man. And that's not good enough ?'

Afterlife, Believe, Blessing, Chap, Men, Minute

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 time, and I will know when I do something and I will immediately say, "Can I do another one, because I didn't quite get that thing," or that I wanted to do something there and it didn't quite work.

All Time, Critiquing, Judging, Listening, Watching, Work

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.

Believe, Cease, Frankly, Ideas, Ipods, Thing

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.

Enlightenment, May, Read, Scotland, Start

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

Finding Happiness, Happiness, Looking, People, Survive

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House. '

Big, Difficult, Guy, House, New York

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Depression, Frustrated, Gets, Mental Illness, Top

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

Kindness, People, Sitting, Staring, Thinking, Way

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.

Commodity, Good, Good Things, Noticed, Pretty, Use

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

Drama, Fox, Foxes, Imagine, Roles

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

Confused, Left, Mom, Right, Said, Two

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.

Flying, Free, House, People, Think, Thinking

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

Burned, Memories, Pain, Thinking, Women

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

Arbitrary, Feelings, Love Is, Meaningless, Particular, Sound

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.

Costume, Costumes, Fifteen, Pain, Seconds

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