Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.

— Hugh Laurie

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

— Hugh Laurie

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I was never someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

— Hugh Laurie

I once met an RAF pilot who told me of what he called a "bird strike". This, rather unfairly in my view, made it sound as if it was the bird's fault; as if the little feathered chap had deliberately tried to headbutt twenty tons of metal travelling in the opposite direction at just under the speed of sound, out of spite.

— Hugh Laurie

I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realized that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my friends, now that I came to think of it.

— Hugh Laurie

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.

— Hugh Laurie

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

— Hugh Laurie

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk-taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

— Hugh Laurie

It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

— Hugh Laurie

I was never someone who was at ease with happiness.

— Hugh Laurie