Hugh Laurie - Hugh Laurie Quotes #1: You Know, Kids, Boys, Explosive Things. It Will Happen.

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-03-2009, 10:57 AM

::made by Yvonne (pinkpaisley)::

Hugh Laurie is known for making some very memorable quotes. Funny - Serious - Thought Invoking you name it. The man has a way with words that his fans enjoy, probably more than Hugh will ever know.

This thread will be home for these quotes to provide a quick refrence for thread titles, sig lins, fan art etc...

We hope to build it into sections of quotes from Hugh and quotes from others about Hugh.

If you hear or come across a quote that you like and would like to share please feel free to post it here for everyone to enjoy.

Hugh Laurie Quotes

I have googled myself. I don't recommend it. Googling yourself I mean. Not me. - Hugh Laurie

I'm just going to draw out three at random, and everyone else can just lump it. - Hugh Laurie

I'm just going to draw out three at random, and everyone else can just lump it. Hugh Laurie

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 - Hugh Laurie

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 - Hugh Laurie

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. - Hugh Laurie

It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen. - Hugh Laurie

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 - Hugh Laurie

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. - Hugh Laurie

It's that simple. I'm a simple soul." - Hugh Laurie

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. - Hugh Laurie

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. - Hugh Laurie

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. - Hugh Laurie

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. - Hugh Laurie

I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. That’s my MO. - Hugh Laurie

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. - Hugh Laurie

[on the difficulty of performing with an American accent] It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon. - Hugh Laurie

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. - Hugh Laurie

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-03-2009, 10:59 AM

Thanks for making the awesome banner Yvonne

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Have at it guys!

I can't wait to see the lists grow!

sam_doc · 09-03-2009, 11:07 AM

Oh this is a wonderful thread

Great idea, and Yvonne this is a fantasic banner!!!

"It's that simple. I'm a simple soul." - Hugh Laurie

source

Oh and the one from my sig

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. - Hugh Laurie

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-03-2009, 11:38 AM

Awesome quotes Andi! Added them

sam_doc · 09-03-2009, 11:40 AM

Thanks Kali, it's really a great thread

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-03-2009, 11:42 AM

glad you like it!

sam_doc · 09-03-2009, 12:40 PM

Can't wait for all the quotes we find

**pinkpaisley** · 09-03-2009, 02:14 PM

I knew this was gonna be a quote thread!!

Awesome idea! And I'm glad you all love that banner.

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-03-2009, 05:42 PM

Yvonne!

I can't wait to fill it up!

sam_doc · 09-04-2009, 12:09 AM

It's really great Yvonne! I love the pic you chose!

Balou · 09-04-2009, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sam_doc (View Post)

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. - Hugh Laurie

This one is awesome, when did he say it?

sam_doc · 09-04-2009, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Balou (View Post)

This one is awesome, when did he say it?

Not sure, I found it on some quote page some time ago

Sorry

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-04-2009, 04:29 AM

I wanna say that is either from the Playboy interview that he did or the interview he did shortly after that

sam_doc · 09-04-2009, 05:36 AM

It's possible Kali

**Grace Like Rain** · 09-06-2009, 08:10 PM

I have a hard time keeping everything stright... sometimes it just all runs together