It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be...
HUGH LAURIE Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, ...
HUGH LAURIE I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
HUGH LAURIE I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you oft...
HUGH LAURIE I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac...
HUGH LAURIE Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am...
HUGH LAURIE Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me...
HUGH LAURIE Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in...
HUGH LAURIE We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in t...
HUGH LAURIE I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, '...
HUGH LAURIE We're getting a lot of air miles, ... I'll go back when I can, and they'll come here when they can. ...
HUGH LAURIE When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song...
HUGH LAURIE I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
HUGH LAURIE Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players,...
HUGH LAURIE It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed...
HUGH LAURIE I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surrou...
HUGH LAURIE Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human ...
HUGH LAURIE I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for...
HUGH LAURIE This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all.
HUGH LAURIE Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
HUGH LAURIE The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder som...
HUGH LAURIE If your life, or the life of someone you love, is hanging in the balance, of course you would withst...
HUGH LAURIE I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
HUGH LAURIE To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibl...
HUGH LAURIE There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with,
HUGH LAURIE Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.
HUGH LAURIE I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sit...
HUGH LAURIE Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up a...
HUGH LAURIE They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
HUGH LAURIE People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I...
HUGH LAURIE He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco...
HUGH LAURIE I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many b...
HUGH LAURIE Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is g...
HUGH LAURIE I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that...
HUGH LAURIE I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fe...
HUGH LAURIE I'm just going to draw out three at random, and everyone else can just lump it.
HUGH LAURIE When the ship goes down, the waves very quickly roll over the top of it, and attention shifts elsewh...
HUGH LAURIE I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not ...
HUGH LAURIE Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, a...
HUGH LAURIE He worked as a doctor for 30 years and as far as I know, never stood up in front of millions of peop...
HUGH LAURIE How did I do that? It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen.
HUGH LAURIE Really? I suppose reading the confidential psychiatric file of his ex-girlfriend.
HUGH LAURIE Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pie...
HUGH LAURIE Mr. and Mrs. Little have won tonight!
HUGH LAURIE Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctua...
HUGH LAURIE I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
HUGH LAURIE I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just ...
HUGH LAURIE I just feel like that's a young person's game. It's partly because you spend your whole time mocking...
HUGH LAURIE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth...
HUGH LAURIE Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It...
HUGH LAURIE I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fasci...
HUGH LAURIE I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young...
HUGH LAURIE I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi...
HUGH LAURIE Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisf...
HUGH LAURIE I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing oc...
HUGH LAURIE Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He'...
HUGH LAURIE I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.
HUGH LAURIE Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.
HUGH LAURIE People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking ...
HUGH LAURIE There once was a man who went to see a psychiatrist, crippled by a fear of flying. His phobia was ba...
HUGH LAURIE There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. ...
HUGH LAURIE It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic wo...
LAURIE HELGOE If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking...
LAURIE HELGOE There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all...
LAURIE HELGOE When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
LAURIE HELGOE I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to ...
LAURIE GRAHAM The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk ab...
LAURIE ANDERSON I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave unt...
LAURIE GRAHAM When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And whe...
LAURIE ANDERSON Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
LAURIE COLWIN Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepte...
LAURIE NADEL Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
LAURIE ANDERSON I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our con...
LAURIE HOLDEN If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something ...
LAURIE NOTARO The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivit...
LAURIE COLWIN I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy...
LAURIE HOLDEN The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to fe...
LAURIE COLWIN I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how ...
LAURIE COLWIN I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
LAURIE COLWIN As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think ...
LAURIE COLWIN The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
LAURIE COLWIN My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboa...
LAURIE COLWIN Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by pract...
LAURIE COLWIN It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel...
LAURIE COLWIN When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed...
LAURIE COLWIN I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.
LAURIE COLWIN Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home.
LAURIE COLWIN Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
LAURIE COLWIN Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in ...
LAURIE COLWIN It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what peo...
LAURIE COLWIN There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what th...
LAURIE COLWIN Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
LAURIE COLWIN One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for...
LAURIE COLWIN The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
LAURIE COLWIN Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
LAURIE COLWIN I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, b...
LAURIE COLWIN Cooking is like love. You don't have to be particularly beautiful or very glamorous, or even ver...
LAURIE COLWIN The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen...
LAURIE COLWIN We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
LAURIE COLWIN We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at ...
LAURIE COLWIN I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare...
LAURIE ANDERSON I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are cha...
LAURIE GRAHAM Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me ab...
LAURIE PENNY Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
LAURIE GRAHAM When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you we...
LAURIE SIMMONS I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories ar...
LAURIE GRAHAM In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-coo...
LAURIE GRAHAM Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-...
LAURIE ANDERSON I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspirin...
LAURIE ANDERSON Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I'...
LAURIE GRAHAM Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than...
LAURIE HELGOE Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had ...
PIPER LAURIE My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitc...
LAURIE GRAHAM My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her f...
LAURIE GRAHAM I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a dead...
LAURIE NOTARO I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
LAURIE NOTARO The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity ...
LAURIE HELGOE When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewe...
LAURIE COLWIN Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
LAURIE GRAHAM Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even ...
LAURIE GRAHAM With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in da...
LAURIE GRAHAM I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementi...
LAURIE GRAHAM None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.
LAURIE GRAHAM The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their d...
LAURIE GRAHAM America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in t...
LAURIE HELGOE Well I was out in my four door
With the top down.
And I looked up and there they were:
M...
LAURIE ANDERSON They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
LAURIE ANDERSON When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
A...
LAURIE ANDERSON And there was a beautiful view
But nobody could see.
Cause everybody on the island
Was s...
LAURIE ANDERSON Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
LAURIE ANDERSON And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my hea...
LAURIE ANDERSON You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're do...
LAURIE ANDERSON ….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since ...
LAURIE MATTHEW The fewer expectations you have, the better.
LAURIE ANDERSON As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you'v...
LAURIE GRAHAM I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'...
PIPER LAURIE When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if s...
LAURIE HELGOE It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release str...
LAURIE HOLDEN I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit...
LAURIE METCALF I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The...
LAURIE GRAHAM I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn&#...
LAURIE LEE 'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more import...
LAURIE GARRETT I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
LAURIE METCALF The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge o...
LAURIE GRAHAM The big issue would be if there was illegally obtained evidence. It could lead to motions for new tr...
LAURIE LEVENSON I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can&...
LAURIE HOLDEN I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether ...
LAURIE HOLDEN Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and ble...
LAURIE GARRETT Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interact...
LAURIE HELGOE And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.
PIPER LAURIE One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
PIPER LAURIE Instead of changing my name, I would change Piper Laurie. That was the beginning.
PIPER LAURIE But then I became so disillusioned.... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique ...
PIPER LAURIE She hit the ball well. Jennifer Hecht served well to keep her in the front row to get all those kill...
LAURIE GLASS When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher ...
LAURIE HOLDEN I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of ...
LAURIE GRAHAM I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of...
LAURIE GRAHAM My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
LAURIE METCALF Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can ...
LAURIE SABOURIN He's a curmudgeon - even at his own premiere.
LAURIE DAVID Courts don't want to invade the deliberative process. We favor finality, and we don't want to send a...
LAURIE LEVENSON We've sweetened them up considerably. They have a lot more sugar and flavor in them than the traditi...
LAURIE STEED When you serve well, everything else follows. Good serving sets the stage and everybody starts servi...
LAURIE NELSON He's our first small dog. He's broadened my horizons, and I just want to broaden his. It's been an a...
LAURIE ALDRICH Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so hug...
LAURIE ANDERSON The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.
LAURIE NADEL The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famill...
LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen...
LAURIE COLWIN You score three times inside the first 30 (minutes) and the bonus point is there for the grab. We ju...
LAURIE FISHER Maine has the highest rate of childhood asthma in the country. The good news is that Maine is ahead ...
LAURIE STILLMAN I'm not a bigot. I'm not a homophobe. I'm a conscientious parent.
LAURIE TAYLOR I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n...
PIPER LAURIE All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...
LAURIE LEE When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A...
LAURIE ANDERSON I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
PIPER LAURIE The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions.
LAURIE ZOLOTH I have no problem with Matthew taking that deal, from the figures that I understand the ballpark to ...
LAURIE FISHER If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!
LAURIE STRONGIN