I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.


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HUGH LAURIE
Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the acti...
HUGH JACKMAN
What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on ...
HUGH ROSS
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me...
HUGH LAURIE
I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines....
HUGH GRANT
Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a t...
HUGH JACKMAN
It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards,...
HUGH GRANT
I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn'...
HUGH JACKMAN
I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and ...
HUGH GRANT
Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I ...
HUGH JACKMAN
I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a ...
HUGH DOUGLAS
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
HUGH LEONARD
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in...
HUGH LAURIE
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better lookin...
HUGH LEONARD
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turk...
HUGH GRANT
One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can k...
HUGH JACKMAN
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER
It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise s...
HUGH BLAIR
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th...
HUGH SIDEY
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
Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER
I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE
When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody ...
HUGH JACKMAN
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER
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
What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER
I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON
I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly c...
HUGH GRANT
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE
Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
HUGH GRANT
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
HUGH LEONARD
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ...
HUGH JACKMAN
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in t...
HUGH LAURIE
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al...
HUGH HEFNER
There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the hu...
HUGH MACLENNAN
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
HUGH SIDEY
I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, '...
HUGH LAURIE
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
HUGH LEONARD