To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me but it's a lonely place even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

How we are using up our home how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm where it's OK to fail - a kind of home I suppose.

However painful the process of leaving home for parents and for children the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Thanks to evolution our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why then do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I love being on stage. I'm completely totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.