The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain anxiety fear and self-doubt. For many of us the confusion around this question is excruciating.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate to fear God that's not religion that's not helping humanity that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away you take from it its very life and being.

In itself homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either a human being without feeling fear restraint or obligation.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

I have a fear of being boring.

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.

More than anything else my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young sexy and available. She was all that and more. She had big blue eyes alabaster skin a heart-shaped face a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America if I don't make eye contact the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

It wasn't not being famous any more or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me no phones ringing nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now at 40 I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.