Quotes About The Spotlight

#1. Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Kay Yow

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Katy B

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Lew Wasserman

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

Vanna Bonta

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Debby Ryan

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Annie Lennox

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

Tracy Morgan

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Jeanette Winterson

#34. 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

#35. {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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Louise Gluck

#40. 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

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

Tabatha Coffey

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Chase Utley

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

Lance Bass

#47. 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

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

Hakeem Olajuwon

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Tom Wopat

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

Greg Gutfeld

#54. What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

Ali Larter

#55. Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Lauren Conrad

#56. I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.

Phil Jackson

#57. You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

Shaun Alexander

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

Chris Jericho

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

Jane Lynch

#62. As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

Christy Carlson Romano

#63. I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.

Tyler Beede

#64. Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.

Kurt Busiek

#65. Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Cat Stevens

#66. I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Vincent Cassel

#67. You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

Hayden Panettiere

#68. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal - the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight.

Susan Cain

#69. 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

#70. 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

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

Edward Snowden

#72. 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

#73. 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

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

The1Essence

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#79. Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

Lindsay Lohan

#80. Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

Sloane Crosley

#81. Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#82. Ironically, when I hit adolescence, I was approached about modeling and acting all the time. And, for five years, I said, "No, I'm not interested. I want a simple life, I don't want to be in the spotlight."

Evangeline Lilly

#83. A brisk wind wove through the bushes, twirling the leaves so that their pale undersides fluttered towards the sun. Like children thrust suddenly into the spotlight, flitting between nerves and self-importance.

Kate Morton

#84. Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

Melissa Hill

#85. The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

David Beckham

#86. It's the best feeling in the world . The game's on the line, and you're the guy in the spotlight.

Eric Gagne

#87. The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.

Cormac McCarthy

#88. Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi - all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

Susan Cain

#89. If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Rocco Buttiglione

#90. By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

Danica McKellar

#91. People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Karl Lagerfeld

#92. Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.

Omar N. Bradley

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

Laurelin Paige

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

Nadia Comaneci

#95. I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

Lily Tomlin

#96. That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.

Lynn Coady

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Daisy Meadows

#98. As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

Troian Bellisario

#99. We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.

Eric Church

#100. I had racially prejudiced comments directed at me on different blogs. People think that just because you're in the spotlight, you're fair game. It's hard, and I don't think you're ready at any age for it. Thankfully, I have some great fans who got me through it.

Kat Graham