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Hugh Laurie Quotes

Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

Hugh Laurie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Good Week Play Way Celebrity

The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.

Jerry Hall

Money Proud Foundation Doing Cancer

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn

Politics Religion Tradition Long

It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

Aneurin Barnard

Good Great Yourself Theatre Think

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Life Man Gay Presentation Lived Jim

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

John Wayne

Jealousy You Pictures Meet Westerns

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

Stanley Hauerwas

Mother Son God Me Story She

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Mary-Louise Parker

College Me Direction Comedy Too Much

You are one of the forces of nature.

Jules Michelet

Nature You Forces

I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home!

Judy Blume

Home Sometimes Want Stay Just Quite

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.

Jose Rodriguez

Training Know Military Prepare Being

I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.

Drake Bell

Character Growing Up Story Loved Up

President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.

Douglas Brinkley

Enough House Feeling White Lucky