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“I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't admire crystals and chewing willow bark and herbal remedies.”
“Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing.
It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit. ”
“I am going to form a jazz trio along the lines of a Ramsey Lewis or Herbie Hancock kind of thing. I’m gonna find some regular gigs, and we’ll play a very groovy set. If girls in tight-fitting cocktail dresses want to drape themselves over the piano, that’s fine, but the music’s the thing. That’s one of the few things I’m sure about, I just know, that will make me immensely happy.”
“It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a
tennis racket and you have a
salmon.”
- on the difficulty of performing with an American accent.
“I'm sort of reasonably good at a lot of things, but not great at anything yet. I'm a reasonably good writer. I don't write like Martin Amis, but I wish I did. But I can probably act better than Martin Amis. But I can't act as well as Kenneth Branagh, but I can probably play the piano better than Kenneth Branagh, but I can't play the piano as well as Dr. John.
I may be able to cook better than Dr. John.”
“I am absolutely speechless. Seriously, I don't have a speech. People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cuff links 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.”
- after winning the Golden Globe.
“I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.”
“I have googled myself.
I don't recommend it. Googling yourself I mean. Not me.”
“Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it’s badly translated, hard to figure out. ”
“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 pajamas feeling each other's chi.”
“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”
“Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.”
“I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour.
I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.”
“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.”
“I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually;
I am a fragile flower.”
“To be able to
pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very
liberating and exciting.”
“I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. That’s my MO.”
“One of the reasons I got the role of House is, coming from England, I was largely unknown to Americans. There were no preconceived notions or expectations about how I was supposed to look or sound. I was new, and that was attractive.”
“I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a [Marlon Brando] idea going on, which I don't.”
“I know a lot of people think therapy is about
sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.”
