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" Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. "
Hugh Laurie
Missing
Hard
Figure
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" I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
Comfort
Know
" 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.' "
Hugh Laurie
Myself
Walk
Down
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Makeup
Game
I Am
" I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot. "
Hugh Laurie
Oil
Now
Working
" 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
Moments
Happiness
Good Things
" 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
Life
Children
Goals
" 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
Death
Family
Great
" I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. "
Hugh Laurie
Identity
Behind
Idea
" I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome. "
Hugh Laurie
Fun
Myself
People
" 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.' "
Hugh Laurie
Good
Think
Hair
" When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life. "
Hugh Laurie
Me
Song
Small
" 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
Surround Yourself
Believe
Yourself
" To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. "
Hugh Laurie
Exciting
Able
Pretend
" I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
Kind
Company
" I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino. "
Hugh Laurie
Than
Better
Play
" The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby. "
Hugh Laurie
Baby
Stars
Know
" The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home. "
Hugh Laurie
Home
Wherever
Strange
" I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market. "
Hugh Laurie
Clever
Money
Never
" 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
Miles
Me
Run
" Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
Places
Body
" Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
House
Grace
" 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
Tequila
Crew
Gone
" I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner! "
Hugh Laurie
Want
Bring
Hate
" Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
World
You
" People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. "
Hugh Laurie
People
Find
Happiness
" 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
House
Flower
Walk
" I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable. "
Hugh Laurie
Proud
You
Think
" Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. "
Hugh Laurie
About
Them
Putting
" One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade. "
Hugh Laurie
Car
Windows
Week
" They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them. "
Hugh Laurie
You
Illusion
Impress