Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.
Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
