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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
being-yourself
Keep on being yourself.
lying house variables
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
eye grandmother legs
Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.
scotland enlightenment may
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
beautiful sports climbing
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.
years democracy four
Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
tricky bits
This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.
children attention actors
I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.
acting mask music-is
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.