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" 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
Remember
Rest
My Life
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" 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
" 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
" To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. "
Hugh Laurie
You
Boy
Clever
" The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that; that's fine. "
Hugh Laurie
Peace
TV
Finding
" I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing. "
Hugh Laurie
Character
Judge
Me
" When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be. "
Hugh Laurie
Top
Ship
Life
" L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
City
Crazy
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Pencil
Feeling
Love
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Loved
Army
Enough
" Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process. "
Hugh Laurie
Process
Understand
Love
" I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back. "
Hugh Laurie
Cannot
Back
Go
" I really do believe the camera steals the soul. But that may be because I'm worried about my soul. I don't have much of a soul to begin with; I can't afford to lose much. "
Hugh Laurie
Lose
Camera
Believe
" 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
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Soon
Bike
First
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
You
Bag
" Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
Morning
Motorcycle
" 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
" Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can. "
Hugh Laurie
Whatever
Way
Pain
" It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian. "
Hugh Laurie
Man
Rain
California
" 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
" I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. "
Hugh Laurie
Identity
Behind
Idea
" Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. "
Hugh Laurie
Piano
Well
Very
" 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
" Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. "
Hugh Laurie
About
Them
Putting
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Drama
Doing
Thought
" I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding. "
Hugh Laurie
Mean
People
Hide
" 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 have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning. "
Hugh Laurie
Look
Bed
Say
" In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off. "
Hugh Laurie
Television
You
Ending
" The glory of American television is Dennis Franz. "
Hugh Laurie
American
Television
Glory