Quotes by Hugh Laurie

Its a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until youre ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. Theres almost no such thing as ready. Theres only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if Im about to go bungee jumping or something--Im not. Im not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

...killing Dirk, killing anybody, was not going to change anything apart from Franciscos f***ing ego, which was already large enough to house the worlds poor twice over, with a few million bourgeoisie in the spare-room.

People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it’s never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. Perhaps they, whoever they were, thought of a falling sun. That might be it, except that that ought to give us dayfall. Day fell on Rupert the Bear. And we know, if we’ve ever read a book, that day doesn’t fall or rise. It breaks. In books, day breaks, and night falls.In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

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. Youre free of the gravity of what people think.

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

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 Im going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

“I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. Ive never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. Im wary of happiness.”