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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian. "
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" I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Understand
Love
" I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back. "
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Cannot
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" Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.' "
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" I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here. "
Hugh Laurie
Medicine
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" 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
" 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. "
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Death
Family
Great
" Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work. "
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" Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. "
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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. "
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Moments
Happiness
Good Things
" 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. "
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Television
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Ending
" I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. "
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Behind
Idea
" 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. "
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" I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't. "
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" I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market. "
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Money
Never
" I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed. "
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Talking
Slightly
" Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. "
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" I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. "
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" 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. "
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Miles
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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