Jodi Picoult Quotes

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.

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

You take the risk of being rejected.

Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

I think one of the important things around tournaments and qualifying tournaments is the jeopardy around it.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

I cannot afford to make mistakes.