The best Quotes by Hugh Laurie

The best Quotes by Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician. He first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry. He appeared in two series of the period comedy Blackadder (1987–1989) alongside Rowan Atkinson. From 2004 to 2012, Laurie starred as Dr. Gregory House on the Fox medical drama series House.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
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.
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.
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.
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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If the wonder's gone when the truth is known, there never was any wonder.
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I'm sorry, but the fact that the sexual pleasure center of your cerebral cortex has been over-stimulated by spirochetes is a poor basis for a relationship.
Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 8
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What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die, or one who ignores you while you get better? I suppose it would particularly suck to have a doctor, who ignores you while you die.
Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 3
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It's one of the great tragedies of life -- something always changes.
Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 22
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People like talking about people. Makes us feel superior. Makes us feel in control. And sometimes, for some people, knowing some things makes them care.
Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 13
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
I have always worried about things more than I should.
Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
Dr. House - Season 5 Episode 1
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"You're not getting in some escape pod, are you?"
Ryan Clark: "Ma'm, if I had an escape pod, I would put you in it. [Whispers] And set the f*cking thing on fire."
Ryan Clark in Avenue 5
'What the hell is going on?'
'Should we be scared?'
'This is a safe space, emotionally. Physically, we're obviously in terrible danger.'
Matt Spencer in Avenue 5
My first words, as I was being born I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm going up one of those!"
I called JK up and said, "Look, do you mind, I can't say 'Harry pocketed-ed it'. Would it be okay if I said 'Harry put it in his pocket'?" There was a big pause at the end of the line, then she said, "No" in her best witch's voice. I could hear her smile as she said it.
Stephen Fry - Mai 2019
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Lord Melchett: "Ah, Blackadder, talking to yourself, I see."
Blackadder: "Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
Mrs M, if we were the last three humans on earth, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick.
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head.
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
Baldrick, I want you to take this and go out and buy a turkey so large, you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me - and THIS pencil.
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
If there's not enough coffee for everyone, there's coffee for no one.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.
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It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
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My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.
We think too much and feel too little.
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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

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