Kevin Costner Quotes

When something or someone is hyped and you're put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That's kind of scary, especially when you're not really putting yourself out there.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

I wait for death and journalists.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

Everybody is always looking at the best in the world with a magnifying glass and they are criticised more than others.

Everybody is looking for me to fail.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.

I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don't go well for me.

I don't really change much; there's not much I can do about the judging in front of a home crowd.

I got booed a lot of places.

When you're on top, you're going to get flack for anything.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.