“You’ve got to go past the line of people who can’t get a table and that’s a bad feeling.”

House star Hugh Laurie feels guilty about the privileges of fame when he is dining out in restaurants.

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House star Hugh Laurie is quietly hoping for an actor’s strike this summer, so he can take some time off.

The Brit confesses he is lazy and loved the three-month break the recent Writer’s Guild strike afforded him.

Actor’s union the SAG (Screen Actor’s Guild) and studio bosses are currently negotiating to avoid a second bout of industrial action - and Laurie won’t be too disappointed if the talks fail.

He jokes, “I am worried that there won’t be an actor’s strike? Of course not. (But) little tiny strike every now and again is good. I’m very lazy.”

When asked what he did during the writer’s strike, Laurie replied, “I did absolutely nothing. I was like a lizard on a rock. I struck a pose and held it for three months.”

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House star Hugh Laurie hates talking to the press about his past - comparing the experience with putting his “testicles on a chopping board”.

The British actor, who has previously admitted to suffering from clinical depression, tries to remain upbeat by focusing on the future. But reporters like to delve into his background, and their questions often trigger a negative mood swing in Laurie.

He says, “Obviously you are in a very vulnerable position (when you give an interview). You are putting your testicles on a chopping board. I get anxious about a lot of things, that’s the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can’t stop thinking about things all the time. And here’s the really destructive part - it’s always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done. I can’t bear going through the same f***ing dance of despair.”

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House star Hugh Laurie has confessed to experimenting with painkiller Vicodin - but warns others to be “careful” with the powerful drug.

The British actor, 48, admits he had previously dabbled with the drug - the same one his TV character Dr. Gregory House is addicted to - but claims he only tried it out so he could identify with his on-screen persona’s struggle with the strong substance.

Speaking to U.K. magazine Radio Times, he says, “I wouldn’t recommend it - we have to be careful. “But then again, if you’re not in pain, it gives a floaty, pleasurable feeling.”

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Atonement, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, has won the best film award at this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards.

The movie, adapetd from Ian McEwan’s novel, was nominated for 14 awards, but only went home with two, Best Film and Best Production Design.

James McAvoy lost out on the best actor award to Daniel Day-Lewis’s towering performance in There Will Be Blood, and Keira Knightley was beaten by Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.

The Best British Film category was won by Shane Meadows’s 1980’s drama This Is England, beating off strong competition from The Bourne Ultimatum and Control.

The full list of winners:

Best Film - Atonement

Best British Film - This Is England

Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Best Actress - Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)

Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

Best Supporting Actress - Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction - Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country For Old Men)

Best Original Screenplay - Juno (Diablo Cody)

Best Adapted Screenplay - The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Ronald Harwood)

Film Not in the English Language - The Lives of Others

Best Animated Film - Ratatouille

The Carl Foreman Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Matt Greenhalgh (writer of Control)

Orange Rising Star Award - Shia LaBeouf

Music - La Vie En Rose

Cinematography - No Country For Old Men

Editing - The Bourne Ultimatum

Production Design - Atonement

Costume Design - La Vie En Rose

Sound - The Bourne Ultimatum

Special Visual Effects - The Golden Compass

Make Up & Hair - La Vie En Rose

Short Animation - The Pearce Sisters

Short Film - Dog Altogether

Red Carpet: Amanda Peet and husband, James McAvoy and wife,  Javier Bardem,  Jessica Biel, Kate Hudson, Keira Knightley, Kevin Spacey, Rosamund Pike, Samantha Morton, Sienna Miller and boyfriend Rhys Ifans and Viggo Mortensen.

Backstage: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daniel Day Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Emily Blunt, Eva Green, Harvey Keitel, Hugh Laurie, Ian McKellen, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Orlando Bloom, Paul Dano, Rosamund Pike, Thandie Newton and Tilda Swinton.

British actor Hugh Laurie returned to work Monday after taking a sudden trip home to his native England for undisclosed family issues.

On October 25, Laurie, 48, told producers he had to leave the L.A. set, promptly hopping on an afternoon flight to London, where his wife, Jo, and their three children, Charlie, Bill and Rebecca, reside. At the time, a show rep said that “Hugh had family obligations in England to attend to, but production is continuing in his absence.”

But in a revealing interview in Sunday’s Sydney Daily Telegraph, the Emmy-nominated star — who recently became one of the highest paid actors on TV, earning more than $300,000 an episode — admitted he is battling “mild depression” and continues to see a therapist periodically.

Not only does he miss his family (Laurie maintains a home in L.A., while they live in London), but he also said he was “drained” by the show’s overnight success and the 14-hour, five-days-a-week demands of the job.

“I’m always thinking about the show,” he told the paper. “I’m too neurotic and too anal and too convinced that we’re going to fail to relax. Every show we do, every scene we shoot, is a disaster, I’m convinced of it.

“I go home at the end of the day and my head is full of all the mistakes I’ve made.

“I beat myself up about what I’ve stuffed up the day before,” he added. “I’m looking for things to go wrong. I’m not rejoicing or lying back and enjoying it.”

He said he was thrilled when he first got the script. “They sent me four pages in a fax and I read a couple of scenes and thought, ‘This looks great’,” he said.

He added, “I then read the whole script and thought, ‘F— . . . he is the main guy.”‘

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