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Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

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Hugh Laurie
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 11
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James Hugh Calum Laurie
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I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.
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I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.
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Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.
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Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.
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She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.
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People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.
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To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
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I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen I want to get inside it.
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They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
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I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
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Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.
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Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
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It's a holy city for music.
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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
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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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Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
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Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
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Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
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There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.
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There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.
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