If your life, or the life of someone you love, is hanging in the balance, of course you would withstand any amount of abuse to get the job done and to get the life saved. Of course, you have to be convinced that person knows what they're doing. In real life, you have no way of knowing that you're dealing with the best person for the job. It's only on television that you can know that. (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, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing. (Hugh Laurie)
Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is going to see the best person for the job, (Hugh Laurie)
Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life. (Hugh Laurie)