(born 11 June 1959), better known as Hugh Laurie h, is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director. He first became well known in the media as one half of the Fry and Laurie
double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry
, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder
and Jeeves and Wooster
from 1987 until 1999. Since 2004, he has played Dr Gregory House
, the protagonist
of House
, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild
awards and several Emmy nominations.
Laurie has also featured in films, including Sense and Sensibility
(1995), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson
, Disney's 101 Dalmatians (1996), The Borrowers
(1997), Flight of the Phoenix
(2004), Monsters vs. Aliens
(2009), and the three Stuart Little
films.
As of August 2010, Laurie is the highest paid actor in a drama series on US television.
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 performing with an American accent)
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.
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.
They do make you less egotistical. I still manage to think about myself 98 per cent of the time, but at least there is a little window where others can impinge.(On having children)
I don't take off my helmet a lot of the time - that's one of the really good things about riding a bike. I can go all over the place and no one knows who I am.
I was only allowed to wear a sock. But the only way to do the shot was to be naked. It's been my worst nightmare ever since the showers at school - I couldn't believe I was living it. (On his role in Maybe Baby)
This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.
O'Neal had uttered three words: 'Conspiracy to murder.'The correct word for me to repeat in an incredulous tone of voice would have been 'murder'; a very small, and psychiatrically disturbed, section of the population might have opted for the 'to'; but the one word out of the three I most definitely should not have chosen to repeat was 'conspiracy'.
There’s an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you’re climbing into a metaphor.
The first item was fighting under the name ‘Crostini of Mealed Tarroce, with Benatore Potatoes’ and weighed in at an impressive twelve pounds sixty-five. The Ralph Lauren blonde came over and asked me if I needed any help with the menu, and I asked her to explain what potatoes were. She didn’t laugh.