Hugh laurie

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have...

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I...

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a...

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

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

I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of...