Quotes About Spotlight

#1. I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

Tom Wopat

#2. I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?

Michelle Tea

#3. I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

Megan Fox

#4. The spotlight never fixes our insecurities. It only magnifies what we thought popularity would cover up.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time ... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Jason Robert Brown

#6. If I am ever in the spotlight, I want to look good.

Roxane Gay

#7. Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

Lisa Marie Presley

#8. If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

Gail Caldwell

#9. I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.

Kay Yow

#10. Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

Tina Yothers

#11. It is important not to confuse personality with character. Personality is what you display when the spotlight is on you. Character, on the other hand, is who you really are when the lights are off.

E. Marcel Jones

#12. Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

Chad Harbach

#13. By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

Glenn Miller

#14. This is your last chance, honey," Brandy says, and her blood is getting all over the place. She says, "Do you love me?" It's when folks ask questions like this that you lose the spotlight.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the every thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent. You cannot take enough action to compensate for the Energy that you're flowing.

Abraham Hicks

#16. I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

Caitlin Rose

#17. The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Shania Twain

#18. The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

Katy B

#19. Like I said, my friend, she seems the type who likes to make something beautiful with her partner, rather than just be carried around and adored in the spotlight.

Suanne Laqueur

#20. In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

Susan Cain

#21. On the stage Tristen bent over the piano, his fingers swift and sure, his blond hair gleaming under the spotlight. I glanced around at the audience, watching their faces, gratified that they were as captivated as I was by the dark, thunderous song that Tristen conjured.

Beth Fantaskey

#22. I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

Alessia Cara

#23. Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.

Dirk Nowitzki

#24. For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

Christine Quinn

#25. Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.

Lew Wasserman

#26. If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

Vanna Bonta

#27. I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish
cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

Haruki Murakami

#28. My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Hope Solo

#29. You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.

Debby Ryan

#30. The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

Neil Diamond

#31. How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

Neal Shusterman

#32. Creeds/Confessions: What if we wrote new creeds that put love in the spotlight? Imagine if, instead of reciting a statement of beliefs, we spoke confessions of love, beginning with "We love" rather than "We believe.

Brian McLaren

#33. I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

Annie Lennox

#34. When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.

Tracy Morgan

#35. My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.

Holly Madison

#36. It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

Theodor W. Adorno

#37. What grabs our mental spotlight is illicit sex, violent death, and Walter Mittyish leaps of status. Now

Steven Pinker

#38. The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.

Liu Cixin

#39. I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Patricia Heaton

#40. Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.

Cassia Leo

#41. People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.

Kylie Jenner

#42. The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

Damon Hill

#43. We played with the moon all night, painting faces on its blank cheek, shining its spotlight into sleeping people's windows. But mostly we just ate the moon, stuck tongues to its surface and felt it dissolve, left chunks of its minty scalp on neighbors' doorsteps.

Jalina Mhyana

#44. I'm so central to YouTube now, and that puts me in the spotlight and raises a lot of questions like, 'Why is he so big?'

PewDiePie

#45. 'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.

Markus Persson

#46. When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

Pete Maravich

#47. She won't love again in the same unbridled way; she'll never feel the sharp brightness of her own personality when he gazes upon her, when he draws a spotlight over her and she responds, fully illuminated.

Katie Khan

#48. The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

Michael Musto

#49. Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

Garrett Hedlund

#50. I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

Narada Michael Walden

#51. I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.

Cathy Freeman

#52. My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Jeanette Winterson

#53. The work of a lifetime, the process of individuation, is widening of that spotlight so much that everything is illuminated and you are conscious of and can see your All.

Sera J. Beak

#54. Having shaved my head for the role put a spotlight on me.

Persis Khambatta

#55. As a little girl, I was athletic: 'Oh, mom, look at me. I can do cartwheels.' I was one of those annoying kids. I craved the spotlight. I had the feeling since I was little that the stage was my home.

Ashley Leggat

#56. I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

Gemma Ward

#57. {ELIZA]
I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight. We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night. Laughing at my sister as she dazzling the room. Then you walked in and my heart went boom.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#58. Diane is my spiritual guide. She is a Duke- and Harvard-educated oyster fisherman in Cape Cod. Now there's something you don't hear every day. Like Jackie and Doug, she does not seek the spotlight.

Megyn Kelly

#59. We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.

Biz Stone

#60. There's always pain behind the fame. Fame which I never asked for. Being in the spotlight has its fair share of disadvantages. I leaned back and fixed my eyes on the stereo and this time his hands were shivering. I wondered what would happen if Tinie Tempah boarded his taxi. He would die!

S.A. David

#61. It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

Alexander Gustafsson

#62. I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.

Louise Gluck

#63. I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

Justin Vernon

#64. The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

Jimmy Buffett

#65. Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

Tabatha Coffey

#66. Nothing against Nicki Minaj - I think she's a dope lyricist, and her body is perfect, along with a dope personality. But I'm more into a woman who's not so much into the spotlight.

Jeremih

#67. I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

Katy Perry

#68. Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!

IU

#69. I don't really like the spotlight.

Chase Utley

#70. Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

Lance Bass

#71. We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Shingai Shoniwa

#72. The problem is that urgencies - the most vivid and immediate circumstances - will always hog our spotlight.

Chip Heath

#73. I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#74. If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

Thom Yorke

#75. I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Brian Eno

#76. Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

Bob McNair

#77. I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but for the guys too. I want to show everybody that I didn't grow up in the spotlight like the Mickey Mouse Club to make it. That is important for kids to know.

Tonya Mitchell

#78. I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.

Rosamund Pike

#79. For some people life outside the spotlight is death.

Nadia Comaneci

#80. Everything in my world is dimmed next to the spotlight of my precious Alayna.

Laurelin Paige

#81. From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me, and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#82. Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

Greg Gutfeld

#83. Be like the sun; it does not look for the spotlight; the limelight travels with it wherever it goes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#84. When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#85. I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Giles Andreae

#86. I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way

Giovanna Fletcher

#87. I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric ... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

Harry Connick Jr.

#88. I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

Ryan Murphy

#89. No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.

Kristin Cast

#90. If you love someone, allow them the freedom to grow. If you respect and admire them, work harder to be like them. Because if you don't, you might be the one wondering why they're the success story and you're just a shadow in their spotlight

Jes Fuhrmann

#91. Always remember that in order for shine the spotlight on you, someone came along before you and paid the light bill....

The1Essence

#92. People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it's sunshine.

Kristen Stewart

#93. I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

Dan Auerbach

#94. I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Edward Snowden

#95. At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

Charles Lindbergh

#96. Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess - up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries under a hot spotlight that shows off my sweat stains( including one that sort of looks like Jabba the Hutt), with about a thousand beady eyeballs drilling into me?

James Patterson

#97. Anyone who is in Christ is strategically positioned to win the most coveted award in this business called life. He doesn't want you playing itty-bitty roles. He wants bright lights in your dressing room, and the spotlight trained on you as you take the center stage.

Yay Padua-Olmedo

#98. I don't think I'd ever be able to give up the spotlight.

Chris Jericho

#99. I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.

Big Boi

#100. I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, Preach this sermon just for her. She's not going to get the message otherwise.

Janice Thompson