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5. Christina Ricci: Botanophobia

Here's something to put in Christina Ricci's Christmas stocking — a Weed Whacker. The 23-year-old actress admitted to British Esquire this summer that she suffers from a form of botanophobia — and we're not exactly talking about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Ricci swears she's afraid of houseplants. "They are dirty," she said. "If I have to touch one, after already being repulsed by the fact that there is a plant indoors, then it just freaks me out."

Ricci's also not so keen on swimming pools: "I won't swim in a pool by myself because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let the shark out."

6. Roger Moore: Hoblophobia

Being The Man With The Golden Gun gave Roger Moore a nervous tic. The star of seven James Bond films was decidedly more shaken than stirred by his License to Kill firearms.

"The only acting I ever did was trying not to blink because as soon as I pick up a gun I start blinking," said Moore at a 1993 UNICEF fund-raiser.

In espionage, however, a nervous secret agent can hide under his bed and still tell his boss he's deep undercover. [Next: Alfred Hitchcock]