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Hugh Laurie Quotes

«To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.»
Author: Hugh Laurie (Actor, Writer) | About: Acting, Actor, TV series
«I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many brilliant actors around that one more twit like me joining the back of the queue seems completely unnecessary.»
«How did I do that? It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen.»
«He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to become a fake version of my own father.»
«Really? I suppose reading the confidential psychiatric file of his ex-girlfriend.»
«People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it.»
«Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.»
«So he came back at 40 ... with a science degree, thinking, `Well, what am I going to do now?' and with two kids, he enrolled in medical school with a lot of 19-year-olds, ... an amazing thing.»
«He worked as a doctor for 30 years and as far as I know, never stood up in front of millions of people and got a gold shiny thing for it, which seems ridiculous someone who pretends to do that should be honored and recognized, but it's a crazy world, you know?»
«They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.»

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