Explore Quotes by Hugh Laurie

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.

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

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

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.

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.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

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

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

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.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.