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" Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be. "
Hugh Laurie
Most
Screenwriting
Should
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" I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't. "
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" I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Top
Ship
Life
" 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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Think
Places
Body
" 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
" Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. "
Hugh Laurie
Bee
Great
Hero
" 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
" Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can. "
Hugh Laurie
Whatever
Way
Pain
" Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. "
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Piano
Well
Very
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it. "
Hugh Laurie
Think
Start
Thinking
" 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. "
Hugh Laurie
Good
Business
Work
" It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me. "
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Stayed
Me
Read
" 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. "
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Think
Kind
Company
" 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
Want
You
" To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. "
Hugh Laurie
Exciting
Able
Pretend
" I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. "
Hugh Laurie
Happiness
Never
Ease
" People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. "
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People
Find
Happiness
" 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. "
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Loved
Army
Enough
" It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record. "
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Camel
Eye
Man
" 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
" 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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Look
Bed
Say
" I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero. "
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Realize
Character
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Missing
Hard
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" 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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Family
Great