Hugh Laurie Quotes

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.

Hugh Laurie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 11, 1959

Topics

OptimismPeopleCityCrazyThink

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

Jillionaire

TimeBackEarlyFirst TimeFirst

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

Jim Carrey

WorkGoodBusinessDaughterTime

I consider most of the talent in the financial world to be suboptimal. It could be better placed earning its living in the real world.

Jeremy Grantham

TalentWorldFinancialBetterLiving

Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.

Steven Pinker

RoadsFinancialBetterMoreKingdom

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone de Beauvoir

WomanWordsBrokenMagicSexKind

There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now.

Min Jin Lee

FailureFreedomI CanNowSeeLot

Trying to sound good at 10 A.M. is the worst.

Jonathan Groff

GoodTryingWorstSound

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

Colm Wilkinson

HonestyTruthActingNothingMeans

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

Corey Clark

TruthAmericanYouNothingIdolOff

I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'

Ali Liebegott

WorkHomeGreatParentsWritingYou

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.

Phil McGraw

MyselfMoneyDoingQuitPsychology

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Sergey Brin

GodThinkSearchRememberPowerful

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