My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I havent fallen since. – Hugh Laurie
Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. Its about whether or not you get the chance to do good work. – Hugh Laurie
I dont 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. – Hugh Laurie
I feel like Im working on an oil rig right now. Im away from home a lot. – Hugh Laurie
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didnt stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didnt have his blood. – Beth Ditto
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre