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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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• To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

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• Some people are drawn naturally – there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

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• Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It’s about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

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

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• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I’ve managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I’m in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

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• My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven’t fallen since.

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• I’m finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted ‘Hey! It’s Dr. House.’

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• I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

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• I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

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• I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn’t think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

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• I don’t have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, ‘Nailed that one.’ But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

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• I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn’t.

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• I didn’t realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature – the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

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• I couldn’t imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

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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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• Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it’s all punctuation.

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• Believe it or not, perhaps I don’t show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

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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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Hugh Laurie (32)

Birth:	11th June, 1959
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Singer, Television Director

About

James Hugh Calum Laurie was born in Oxford, England. He is an English actor, screenwriter, TV director, singer and comedian. From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr. Gregory House, the title character of House(Directed episodes: "Lockdown" and "The C-Word"), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2016, he appeared in the BBC miniseries The Night Manager(received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor). His role in several films include: Strapless, A Pin for the Butterfly, 101 Dalmatians, Spice World, Maybe Baby, Girl from Rio, Flight of the Phoenix, Street Kings, The Oranges, Mr. Pip, and Tomorrowland. His role in television include: A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Alfresco, Fortysomething(also director), Veep, and Chance. He has written several TV series include: The Cellar Tapes, There's Nothing to Worry About!, Alfresco, and A Bit of Fry & Laurie. His albums list shown below: The World of Jeeves and Wooster(with Stephen Fry), Let Them Talk, and Didn't It Rain. His singles list shown below: "You Don't Know My Mind", "Winin' Boy Blues", and "Wild Honey".

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