Top 120 Limelight Quotes

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

There are days when there’s no will to do anything. It’s not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can’t just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won’t work with me anymore.

I’m not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

I am so proud of my family, and I am happy to give them all the limelight they want because heaven knows I got more than I need.

Ever since my childhood, I had an urge to always stay in the limelight.

Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

I wouldn’t like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

I don’t know if I’d wanna be in the limelight.

I’ve always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

A lot has to do with the writing. If you’re the writer people seem to remember you. But my part is singing the high parts. It’s not the limelight but I’m happy with it, even though writing is where most of the money is.

I don’t seek the limelight. I’m perfectly happy with a quiet life and spending time with my family, but I deserve recognition.

Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.

I’d rather stay out of the limelight until I’ve done something I feel proud of.

When you’re in the limelight, you can’t always lash out.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

I don’t like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, ‘What is that eejet doing now?’ I’m in the wrong business. I don’t like the limelight.

I meet so many business women who shy away from the limelight or hesitate to put themselves forward for promotion, despite the fact they are brilliant at their jobs.

I’m always honest, whether I’m in the limelight or not.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models – I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.

I don’t like publicity, being in the limelight.

Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you’re at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you’re a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.

I am not a person who wants to be in the limelight all the time.

I am into professional wrestling. Only Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling can qualify in Olympics. I chose professional wrestling for fame and limelight and good money.

Some fighters enjoy the limelight. I get nervous, I mess up when I’m trying to explain things, because I’m a fighter pure and simple, and not really a talker.

I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

I’m happier being out of the limelight, at home with the family.

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.

The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.

When you are in a family where there are two or three people in the limelight – like politics and acting – two worlds colliding like that, there will be times when obviously in the press or public eye, those opinions can collide and not match.

I’m grateful that I didn’t get thrown into the limelight at 19-years-old.

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that’s why there’s the limelight. Everybody’s in it.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

I am constantly visible in TV shows because anybody who is thinking of a role sees me performing on TV and may say, ‘Why not him?’ That way I am always in the limelight. It’s better than running around for good roles. I can’t lobby for roles.

For me, growing up at a young age in the limelight and on social media, I joined Twitter when I was 10 and I got my Instagram when I was 11, so when I joined Instagram, I did notice a lot of hate comments or people would just, like, nitpick at my appearance, just to be funny.

I love the excitement, the center stage, the limelight.

I’m very comfortable in having a strong team. I’m very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

I like being out of the limelight.

In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody’s success.

It’s hard growing up in the limelight. People invent stories. They call me a man-eater. An innocent date with a friend becomes a major scandal.

A lot of guys try to stay out of the political limelight because you have things like endorsements; you have fans and all these other things that you represent.

My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don’t want a political wife – I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.

I don’t feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.

I am unknown because I’ve avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.

Whatever I have been able to achieve in all these years is good for me and I feel God has been kind to me. Having said that I have been part of the limelight all these years but my fans and viewers don’t know my real side. With ‘Bigg Boss’ they will get to know who Shefali Zariwala actually is.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you’ve been around for years.

Being in the limelight has made me more fashion forward because I am under constant scrutiny. So, I have no choice but to be fashion conscious but otherwise I am not so much into it.

Throughout the years, I’ve grown up in front of the limelight as a model and an actress and I believe makeup plays an important part in building the confidence to feel beautiful.

It’s difficult to love a goalkeeper. He is invisible, and is only in the limelight when he makes a blunder.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you’re not acting on a series, you don’t get the ability to communicate to people.

By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn’t stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.