Top 100 Quotes About Spotlight
#1. You have become so good that every mistake you make has a spotlight on it.
Michael Sokolove
#2. Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ... willingly ... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Morrissey
#4. Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.
Fannie Flagg
#6. 'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
Laura Slade Wiggins
#7. If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!
Arielle Ford
#8. I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.
Shawn Amos
#9. I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.
Angelina Jolie
#10. Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.
Jon English
#11. When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!
Anna Netrebko
#12. I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter ... '
Gary Oldman
#13. At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.
Alex Berenson
#14. Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.
Craig Brown
#15. The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
Andy Hargreaves
#16. I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#17. I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
April Bowlby
#18. It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.
Nelson Mandela
#19. Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
Julian Baggini
#20. Step out today not seeking to be in the spotlight but seeking for a spot to light - be a blessing to someone
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#21. As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.
Tabby Biddle
#22. It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
Marion Cotillard
#23. The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage.
David Levithan
#24. In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
Michael Porter
#25. I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
Angela Cartwright
#26. I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.
Riccardo Muti
#27. I'm a sex addict. Everyone knows it. And now we have to figure out how to deal with this spotlight.
Krista Ritchie
#28. I never left because a part of me will always be in that house ...
J.X. Burros
#29. One guy, one girl. One in the spotlight. One in the shadows.
Becky Wicks
#30. I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
Carl Forti
#31. I'm not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I'd like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.
Scarlett Johansson
#32. I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.
Kirsten Dunst
#33. Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet that's just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' and a spotlight on 'The Tonight Show,' that was enough.
Teddy Thompson
#34. Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around more than anywhere else, the glare of the media spotlight is more brutal, and the expectations are higher than they'd be in any other city.
Sarah Lacy
#35. Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons
#36. It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong passion for. I'm just having a ball. There's a lot of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight and being a superstar and a role model, but I'm enjoying it.
Reggie Bush
#37. When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
Adam Braun
#38. There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.
Jiah Khan
#39. I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.
Jeremy Lin
#40. The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
Wayne Rooney
#41. I used to enjoy the spotlight. If I had a day off from filming, I didn't know what to do. Now I enjoy my family time so much, there is this sense of, if it all went away, and I was just a mom, I would love my life.
Kim Kardashian
#42. I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.
Dan Fogelberg
#43. I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
Steve Wilkos
#44. People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
Sandra Bernhard
#45. The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
Alexander Haig
#46. Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight ... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli
#47. I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.
Shania Twain
#48. I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!
Trish Stratus
#49. You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.
Kenny Chesney
#50. I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.
Dion DiMucci
#51. The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, 'Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There's already enough beauty where you are.
Rachael Wade
#52. Remember where you're standing when the spotlight goes off," Lovell warned me once, when our book was a best-seller and the movie it spawned was in theatres. "You'll have to find your own way off the stage.
Jeffrey Kluger
#53. I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
Chris Jordan
#54. What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?
Juliana Hatfield
#55. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.
Camille Paglia
#56. I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.
Kristopher Belman
#57. Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
Dee Dee Ramone
#58. I felt like a piece of glass, shattered and scattered all over. I didn't know who or what I was anymore, but I glittered prettily in the spotlight. I
Emma Scott
#59. The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
Alan Bennett
#60. I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.
Chris Evans
#61. I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.
James Bay
#62. There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.
Jon Glaser
#64. The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you, it radiates from within you,
Marianne Williamson
#65. As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about.
Scarlett Johansson
#66. I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
Shakira
#67. As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
Seth Green
#68. That boy is still here ... He's just waiting for that girl to come back
J.X. Burros
#69. When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
Bruce Sutter
#70. There are some people who call themselves great achievers and they are also desperate for the spotlight just to quench their bloated egos.
Euginia Herlihy
#72. we go through our social lives convinced that everything we are saying, doing and feeling is being closely examined by those around us even though, in reality, they are all preoccupied with themselves, equally convinced the spotlight is on them.
Will Storr
#73. I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.
Gypsy Rose Lee
#74. I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.
Ryan Lewis
#75. She wasn't invisible anymore. She'd stepped dead-bang into the spotlight, and she'd painted a big bull's-eye on her head.
Joe Schreiber
#76. Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
John Bradshaw
#77. I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
Miranda Otto
#78. Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
Roger Kahn
#79. We watch her walk into the spotlight she's been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it's about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it's about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.
Cath Crowley
#81. I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
Macaulay Culkin
#82. How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
Florenz Ziegfeld
#83. Paige needs someone who has a spotlight," Cass starts. I feel Houston shift, and I keep my eyes at my drink. I should argue with her, be offended or defend myself. But the old me, the girl I was before, wouldn't. She'd agree. "Paige
Ginger Scott
#84. Love is not always revered
Sensitivity is not universal
Emotions are difficult to decipher
The spotlight never shines
If you hide behind those shadows
Balroop Singh
#85. After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.
Robyn Davidson
#86. Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.
Sheila Walsh
#87. I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating.
Monica Bellucci
#88. I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.
Anne Hathaway
#89. In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.
Bruno Mars
#90. The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.
Ai Yazawa
#91. In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.
Rosie Perez
#92. I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
Emmy Rossum
#93. You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make room for him.
Mitch Albom
#94. The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
#95. No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.
Rebecca Hamilton
#96. Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas
#97. I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
Heath Ledger
#98. Then Drew Evans strolls into my room. Drew is like no one I've ever known. It's as if there's a spotlight on him that never dims - he demands your notice.
Emma Chase
#99. I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.
Kendall Jenner
#100. When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.
David W. Earle
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