Under The Spotlight Quotes

#1. 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

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

Katy B

#3. 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

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

Annie Lennox

#5. 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

#6. I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#7. 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

#8. I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Riccardo Muti

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

Carl Forti

#15. One guy, one girl. One in the spotlight. One in the shadows.

Becky Wicks

#16. I never left because a part of me will always be in that house ...

J.X. Burros

#17. I'm a sex addict. Everyone knows it. And now we have to figure out how to deal with this spotlight.

Krista Ritchie

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

Ali Larter

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

Wayne Rooney

#22. 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

#23. I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.

Dan Fogelberg

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

Garry Shandling

#28. I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

Lisa Guerrero

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. You have become so good that every mistake you make has a spotlight on it.

Michael Sokolove

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

Fannie Flagg

#35. I liked being in the spotlight.

Scott Caan

#36. '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

#37. 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

#38. I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Shawn Amos

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

Andy Hargreaves

#46. 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

#47. It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Nelson Mandela

#48. Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Julian Baggini

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Marion Cotillard

#52. 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