Top 177 Spotlight Quotes

I wasn’t naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.

After thirty years of being ‘the camel lady,’ believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don’t tell you what you want to hear, but what’s best for you. I was blessed with great friends. I was always blessed that way. My dad always kept good people around me. I just got lucky. Because of the spotlight you’re in, people are scared to tell you otherwise.

I have been in the spotlight, and I have been out of it.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

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

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.

There’s many law changes, policy changes I can point to. But a lot of my work has also been to name the issue that no one else named – to spotlight it, to advocate for it. That’s where all advocacy begins. I’ve asked different questions. I’ve raised different issues.

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.

I’ve never felt comfortable in the spotlight. I never felt pretty enough or wanted people to look at me.

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

I don’t like to be in the spotlight. I like to just chill and observe other people.

More people will watch ‘Spotlight’ than will ever read the ‘Globe’ series that inspired it.

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world’s attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

I am pretty laid back, I think, and I don’t so much want the spotlight on me. I just like to go to the field every day, do my routine, talk baseball, and have as much fun with it as you can.

I kind of got out of the spotlight and life’s never been this good.

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

A lot of things I did were cringy. I look back at interviews, seeing the way I talked and the way I am, and it is embarrassing. I came back from the Olympics, I was shoved in the spotlight and I couldn’t cope that well.

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!

I always keep in mind that being Twice, we will of course be in the spotlight, but that attention is amazing because it means people are supporting us.

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

There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

There are times when you’ll be up in the spotlight at the very top of the show, and you get put back down in the mix because the company is trying to keep everybody fresh and interested, and one guy can’t be stuck at the top of the card forever.

There is always pressure playing cornerback. It’s just a position where you’re always in the spotlight.

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.

I’ve been a spy for almost all of my adult life – I don’t like being in the spotlight.

As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

I don’t very much care for the spotlight.

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.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

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.

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.

There’s this intense media spotlight; there’s a need to be transparent, and, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m also trying to fight a war at the same time.’ It’s a challenge, but it goes with the job.

The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

I didn’t get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

To be straight, if I play and don’t bowl 90 miles an hour it’s going to be news. If I don’t bowl 90 miles per hour for long enough it’s going to be news. If I don’t put my left sock on first, it’s going to be news. I understand that is the scrutiny of playing at this level and being in that spotlight.

I do my job – I don’t try to seek the spotlight; that’s not my way.

Over the years, I’ve interviewed the victims, the guilty, the famous, the important, and the ordinary people affected by tragedy or good fortune. But strangely, it is not always the people in the spotlight that have stayed with me. It is often those on the periphery, the bit players in the drama, that continue to haunt.

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?’

I’ve been competing my whole life. Who cares about the spotlight?

I don’t care whether I’m in the spotlight, not in the spotlight. That’s not gonna stop me from doing anything.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

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.

Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist… it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

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

Like or loathe Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this: He’s done more to shine a spotlight on the loopholes and fundamental unfairness of the tax code than any other American president.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

I was always kind of shy. They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing ‘Take It to the Limit,’ but I liked to be out of the spotlight.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

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.

I wouldn’t mind a spotlight also focused on the crowd, because, I think, one of the things that made the Olympic Games for Great Britain was the incredible support within the stadia where the events took place.

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.

I’m not sure I buy the argument that the public is more mistrustful – the debate will always garner that kind of traction because anything the BBC does is always in the spotlight.

I try to stay out of the spotlight.

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.