Hugh Laurie
Related I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's tru... JAVIER BARDEM RAIN Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed. WILL POULTER I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. OSCAR ISAAC I don't know what I expected – no JESS WALTER I like watching old stuff. I like old Al Pacino movies. 'Serpico.' 'Dog Day Afternoon.&#... RJ CYLER MARTIN FREEMAN I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino. JAVIER BARDEM CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER SCOTT WOLF I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many scienc... ORNELLA MUTI But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when h... JOHN GOODMAN Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the pian... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG JASON BATEMAN RAIN I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country ... JANE BADLER ZOOEY DESCHANEL I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James De... DANE DEHAAN JIM RASH ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up wit... ROSS BUTLER I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis. CHRISTIAN SCOTT For a lot of statistics, you look at longevity. If John Tudor or Joaquin (Andujar) had been able to ... BOB FORSCH I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. ABBIE CORNISH I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen. IAN AXEL FIONA SHAW My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John. KYLE DUNNIGAN I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lo... BARKHAD ABDI I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get bett... ELLE FANNING GAVIN DEGRAW Chris has had this amazing relationship with people like Dr. John and B.B. King. LIZ HARRISON It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacin... AARON ECKHART ROBERT STACK WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm disappointed with myself because I still think I could have done way better than what I did. But... DIEGO ROMERO I can dance - I can dance a little bit. I can move. I don't - I'm not a - I don't procla... ELIJAH KELLEY LUCAS GRABEEL CAROL BURNETT I don't feel like I'm abandoning the ship. ... We worked for two years getting ready for trial, and ... WILLIAM MOFFITT You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That&#... DEIRDRE O'KANE ELLEN BARKIN BILL HADER DAVID RUSSELL I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe... RICHARD SCHIFF MITCH HEDBERG Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn&... GILLIAN CROSS Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my ... CHANDLER CANTERBURY SHERRILYN KENYON Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a goo... LUCY 'AISY I never one time saw John dancing on top of a grand piano. BIG KENNY There could not be a better person for such an important position than John Roberts, JAY SEKULOW RICHARD ARMITAGE I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano. DAVID LAMBERT I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons... JOHN GOKONGWEI Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib... SETH NUMRICH All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'... LESLIE MANN ACE FREHLEY I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it. D. J. MACHALE Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I TEENA MARIE I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a... ELIZA COUPE I'd like to be a piano player. CHRIS DAUGHTRY TOM PETTY Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of qu... JENNIFER ESTEP B. B. KING CHARLIE WATTS MITCH HEDBERG JOE MCCARTHY I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. MIKE FIGGIS SAM HUNT When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacin... JOHN SLATTERY A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music ... CHARLES PETZOLD SAM ROCKWELL ETHEL MERMAN People tend to dance much more easily than they can sing or play the piano. It's not hard to teach a... CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake ... ELLEN HOLLMAN CHARLES HAZLEWOOD BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HARRY CONNICK, JR. BILL BRADLEY I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors. MIKE FIGGIS GAVIN DEGRAW KIP WINGER C.S. LEWIS EVA GREEN
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LAURIE GRAHAM In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-coo... LAURIE GRAHAM LAURIE ANDERSON 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 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... 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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 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 LAURIE ANDERSON LAURIE NADEL LAURIE COLWIN 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 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
I love Al Pacino. 
Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in m... 
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. 
There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe... 
I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic... 
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the gu... 
I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you h... 
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language bette... 
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do... 
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll. 
I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. 
Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on masterin... 
When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and ... 
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New... 
Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I&... 
My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of co... 
I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before. 
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? Wha... 
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick... 
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. 
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... 
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa... 
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. 
I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before. 
There's no better way to honor Alex than to have somebody like John wear it, in my opinion. The kid'... 
I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it. 
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like B... 
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano. 
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!... 
Nothing preaches better than the act. 
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don'... 
Al Gore's run a strong race and I congratulate him, but we're smarter and we're better prepared and ... 
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... 
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you wh... 
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales w... 
It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian. 
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ... 
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act... 
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk ab... 
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And whe... 
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed. 
Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepte... 
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our con... 
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivit... 
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy... 
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to fe... 
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-... 
It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release str... 
The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.