As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.