Hugh Laurie Quotes

"They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am."
-Hugh Laurie

"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."
-Hugh Laurie

"Really? I suppose reading the confidential psychiatric file of his ex-girlfriend."
-Hugh Laurie

"Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life."
-Hugh Laurie

"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."
-Hugh Laurie

"How did I do that? It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen."
-Hugh Laurie

"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."
-Hugh Laurie

"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?"
-Hugh Laurie