I never thought I’d end up living in Los Angeles while my children grew up in Britain, but here I am, and we are all making the best of it. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
I don’t really understand why everybody doesn’t want to direct. It’s an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn’t. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that’s all there is to it. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
I really do believe the camera steals the soul. But that may be because I’m worried about my soul. I don’t have much of a soul to begin with; I can’t afford to lose much. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don’t own any of Clive Dunn’s watercolours. I loved him in ‘Dad’s Army,’ loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
Piano was – well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
I’ve never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life. Hugh Laurie Read Quote
