I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.
I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.
For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.
When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.