British - Actor | June 11, 1959 -
I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
Hugh Laurie
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I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
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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.
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To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
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I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
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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.
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Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.
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You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
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I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.
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One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.
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When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewhere. It's just the natural order of things in TV - in life - and is as it should be.
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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.
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