Latest Hugh Laurie Quotes from Interviews

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• I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my own voice. When it's coming out of my mouth right now it sounds fantastically interesting to me. It's rich in light and shade, it goes up and down. But when I hear it either on TV or even on someone's answering machine, I just sound like I've had half my brain removed.

  Hugh Laurie

  Voice, Light, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

  Hugh Laurie

  Children, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

  Hugh Laurie

  Player, Thinking, Piano

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

  Hugh Laurie

  School, Thinking, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I am very, very aware at all times. I'm watching myself, I'm listening to myself, I'm judging myself, critiquing myself all the time, and I will know when I do something and I will immediately say, "Can I do another one, because I didn't quite get that thing," or that I wanted to do something there and it didn't quite work.

  Hugh Laurie

  Judging, Listening, All Time

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

  Hugh Laurie

  Children, Attention, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org