Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE, is an English actor, writer, director, musician, singer, comedian, and author. He first became known as one-half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Blackadder, and Jeeves and Wooster in the 1980s and 1990s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth11 June 1959
CityOxford, England
beautiful religious moving
I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.
winning race people
Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.
eye grandmother legs
Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.
psychics ideas suffering
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
mom confused two
Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.
boys self doubt
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.
giving-up children thinking
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.
use commodity good-things
The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.
being-yourself
Keep on being yourself.
drinking needs vodka
Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.
player thinking piano
I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.
piano play able
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.
dad firsts week
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.
eye her-eyes
She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.