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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 don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

Believe, Destiny, Down, Granted, Idea, Ideas

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

Deeply, Life, Pain, Success, Things, Thinking

Riding my motorcycle around L. A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

Games, Makeup, People, Safe, Video

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.

Fashion, Girl, Old, Sexual, Years

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

In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.

Ankles, Book, Eager, Fall, Party

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.

Anymore, Novel, Pick, Picks, Remember, Resolved

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Good, Procrastination, Thing, Thinking, Time, Wait

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

Basic, House, Human, Lying, Truth, Variables

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?

Away, Drama, Dull, Hate, Morally, Real

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Growing Up, Learn, Life, Things, Thinking, Waiting

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.

Cycling, Moving, Rain, Room, Sitting, Time

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F. B. I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things. '

Gel, Girl, Nice, Think, Thinking, Vaulting

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.

Believe, Play, Shakespeare, Years

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

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

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

Stupid, People, Giving, Having, Shrink

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 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.

Boxing, Hands, Men, Pajamas, Sneeze, White

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

Actually, Angeles, Like, Los Angeles, Partly, Told

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