British actor, comedian, and writer Hugh Laurie was born June 11, 1959 in Oxford, England. He is well known in the United Kingdom for his television comedy with fellow comedian Stephen Fry. In the U.S he is best known as Dr. Gregory House on the television series House.

• "I worry, as do the writers, that contentment is probably not the right place to put House. Part of the momentum of the show comes from his discontent and self-destructiveness. If he finds himself in a state of married bliss, a articular kind of fire will go out. He’s eternally wounded and if he heals, I don’t think we’ll have a show anymore" (TV Week Magazine 10/06)




• "I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew and certainly that can't be the case. We can't all be wonderful. Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me. They smell of newly mown grass." (Golden Globe Awards 2007)




• "I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pyjamas feeling each other's chi."




• "I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many brilliant actors around that one more twit like me joining the back of the queue seems completely unnecessary."




• "People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it."




• "Television has a factory feel. It is perceived as a craft, rather than an art. But I think a good episode of ER is as good as drama gets. Good TV can be astonishing."




• "A solo comedy show or a solo stage performance would be utterly terrifying....I'm really a team player, my whole pattern has been working in partnerships and ensembles."




• How did I do that? It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen.”



"Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.”

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