Hugh Laurie

“I don't believe in putting on airs. I think it's a very English thing to do. I'm not a big fan of it.”

“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 only now.”

“Everybody lies.”

“Humanity is overrated.”

“If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”

“Winning is not a good teacher. Failure is a good teacher.”

“If nobody hates you, you're doing something wrong.”

“The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth.”

“There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate.”

“I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing. I think that if you're faced with a choice, you've probably gone wrong.”

“I am not a fan of the new-found spiritualism that is being touted as the 'new age.' I think it's a bunch of nonsense.”

“Anxiety is a hamster wheel. You can run and run and run and you're still in the same place.”

“It's one of the great tragedies of life — something always has to come first.”

“I have a thing that I do when I'm in a room with either a piano or a guitar. I'll go over and I'll touch it and I'll play a note.”

“Truth begins in lies.”