Frasi di Hugh Laurie

“L'inizio della quinta stagione sarà veramente figo, con un'amicizia da riparare: non posso dirvi come, altrimenti mi sparano, ma posso anticiparvi che sarà molto godibile, molto piacevole, molto soddisfacente.”

“Non vedo House come un personaggio sexy, ma con una sorta di aspetto con charme. È una persona con dei problemi psicologici e un solitario. Le persone che dicono questo sono completamente fuori strada.”

“Quando inizialmente presi in considerazione di interpretare House non lo ritenni un cambiamento di grande portata. Quello che accade di solito è che fai un episodio pilota e dei veramente pochi che vengono selezionati, circa solo un quarto arrivano al secondo anno. Così pensavo che avrei avuto tre settimane divertenti. Non mi sarei mai sognato di essere qui dopo tre anni e mezzo.”

“Preferisco di gran lunga lo scrivere al recitare, perché si può farlo mollemente sdraiati su un divano, invece che correndo su e giù per una scala 14 volte. Ma io sono una persona molto frivola e sono semplicemente attratto dall'idea di starmene lì seduto in modo molto bloomsburiano.”

“[Riferito al nuovo team] Sono una squadra fantastica, e penso che tutti, inclusi gli sceneggiatori, sentano che ci sono un sacco di possibilità da esplorare, nuove combinazioni di persone che lavorano assieme, nuove relazioni… penso che sarà fantastico.”

“Rayner era in ginocchio. Vomitava su un tappeto cinese, migliorandone enormemente il colore.”

“Sciorinarono il piano per l'infiltrazione e me lo fecero ripetere un milione di volte. Ritengo che, essendo io inglese, fossero preoccupati per la mia incapacità di trattenere per la testa più di un pensiero per volta.”

“Non uccidere, avevo sempre dato per scontato, sta in cima alla lista. Il numero uno. Concupire i culi dei vicini, ovviamente, è cosa da evitare; come commettere adulterio, non onorare il padre e la madre, e inchinarsi davanti a immagini scolpite.
Ma non uccidere, quello sì che è un comandamento. Tutti riescono a ricordarlo perché appare il più giusto, il più vero, il più assoluto.”

“It was a beautiful afternoon; one to make you realise that God really can be very good sometimes with weather and scenery.”

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”

“Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.”

“Keep on being yourself.”

“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 don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he’d take it away. So he'll be like: 'You think this is going pretty well?”

“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.”

“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference.
So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.”

“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”

“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”

“The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.”

“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.”

“This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.”

“She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes… narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.”

“It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.”

“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.”

“Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.”

“Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.”

“Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.”

“It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.”

“Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.”

“Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless”

“Dawn was definitely pulling into the station by now, and the snow had begun to throb with an electric, new-fallen whiteness. It climbed the inside of my trousers, and clung, squeakily, to the soles of my boots, and the bit just in front seemed to say ‘don’t walk on me, please don’t walk... oh.”

“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.”

“We were walking through Hyde Park, going nowhere in particular, holding hands for a bit, then letting go as if holding hands wasn't one of life's big deals.”

“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.”

“I found a cab eventually, and told the driver in fluent English that I wanted Wenceslas Square. This request, I now know, is phonically identical to the Czech phrase for ‘I am an air-brained tourist, please take everything I have’.”

“They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.
It could rain in a room this big.”