233 Quotes by Hugh Laurie

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.

The only good thing I’ve ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

To be able to pretend to be something that I’m frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

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.

The French came to Morocco to build roads, railways, hospitals, schools, fashion sense – all the things that the average Frenchman knows to be indispensable to a modern civilization – and when five o’clock came, and the French looked upon their works and saw that they were good, they reckoned they had bloody well earned the right to live like Maharajahs. Which, for a time, they did.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you’re not looking for it.

Necessity is the mother of self-delusion.

I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die” Patrick Shaw-Stewart.

She kissed me. She kissed me. What I mean is, I was standing there, lips puckered, brain puckered, and she just stepped up and threw her tongue into my mouth. For a moment, I thought maybe she’d tripped on a floorboard and stuck out her tongue as a reflex – but that didn’t seem very likely somehow, and anyway, once she’d got her balance back, wouldn’t she have put her tongue away again? No, she was definitely kissing me.