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9. Billy Bob Thornton: Panophobia? It's hard not to laugh at Thornton's phobias. A 48-year-old guy who's afraid of antique furniture is really off his rocker — assuming it's an old rocker.

"I don't know if it's a past-life thing, but I felt like some beheaded king," said Thornton, who went into shock after checking into a five-star hotel in London, when his ex-wife Angelina Jolie was filming Laura Croft: Tomb Raider.

"Maybe it's a past-life thing and I got beat to death with some old chair," Thornton later told Oprah Winfrey. "I don't really know. But anyway … I'm totally serious. And I can't eat around antiques."

Still, Thornton, an Oscar-winning screenwriter and A-list actor, is thriving in Hollywood despite his idiosyncrasies.

Halle Berry, who won a best actress Oscar staring opposite Thornton in Monster's Ball, says he was only able to eat in one scene if he used a brand new plastic spoon, right out of the box.

Don't look for Thornton to turn to theater any time soon. According to a recent issue of Maxim, stage sparks a reaction in him, he says, that "almost borders on Tourette's."

On the set of Love Actually, Hugh Grant admitted that he teased Thornton with a picture of 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

Disraeli's hair causes another strange reaction, Thornton admitted. "It's not something I can really explain."

Buck Wolf is entertainment producer at ABCNEWS.com. The Wolf Files is published Tuesdays. If you want to receive weekly notice when a new column is published, join the e-mail list.