I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear but the fact is the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte my first child was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so then that society is a free society. If not it is a fear society.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous wants to be famous is famous has been married to someone famous worked with someone famous slept with someone famous been blackmailed by someone famous.

I think the thing to remember though the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels is that the idea of angels was created by human beings who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

My philosophy was if I just do good work someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way way too old now mate. That boat's sailed.

But just playing the partner of someone famous I had a lot more freedom.

For somebody famous it's weird anyway to meet someone because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini who works really really hard to get really really famous and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

I'm a bit jealous. Until two days ago someone told me I am the most famous Korean in the world.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great how famous or successful a man or woman may be each hungers for applause.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.