Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.
Some people want the attention, some people want the spotlight, and that just wasn’t it for me.
I think at WrestleMania you definitely want a singles match and not have to share the spotlight with other guys.
So few people are truly themselves when they’re in the spotlight.
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.
While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?
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.
Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents – how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.
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.
I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I’m not talking about on the basketball court.
You’re either humble or you’re not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
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.
I didn’t really grow up in the spotlight.
But I think, if you’re in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that’s just the way it is.
I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.
Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.
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.
I was just finishing up ‘Spotlight’ in Toronto – I finished it on a Tuesday and started ‘True Detective’ on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
Real Madrid is such an extraordinary club in terms of size and the constant politics that, perhaps, the best results are achieved by those with an ability to remove themselves from the spotlight to concentrate on their work.
I see football as a team sport, I’m not looking for the spotlight.
From a very young age people have been touting me as a world champion. So it can be tough, playing in the spotlight and people expecting big things from you all the time.
Being in the public eye and basically growing up in the spotlight, we are always responsible for our actions.
I don’t have relationships for a very long time. I’m famous so that gets in the way. They either really like the spotlight and having a trophy girlfriend or they will not really be crazy for it.
One wrong move by a star kid and it immediately comes under the spotlight – even blown out of proportion, at times.
On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn’t want to be in the spotlight… There’s an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they’re not that difficult to hide from and you don’t need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
I don’t think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever.
I’ve taken this year to concentrate fully on the promotion of ‘The Lady.’ This movie has been so meaningful; until we have premiered in every part of the world and encouraged as many people as possible to shine the spotlight on the Burmese people and Daw Suu, I will not have a next project.
When you focus the spotlight so much on one person, I think it’s very, very dangerous.
I’m the type of person that, when it’s my time in the spotlight, I’ll do my duty in the spotlight. When it’s not, and it’s another person’s time, I’ll go away.
If I had all the spotlight, that would be great. I’d be happy with that. If I didn’t have the spotlight, that would be great as well.
I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else’s spotlight.
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight’s not on them. But they do get somewhere.
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.
I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they’ve chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.
I started in the industry when I was 4 years old, but I started in the spotlight when I was 11 years old, when I got ‘Modern Family.’
It’s so fun being on the stage and in the spotlight.
I’m not driven by the spotlight and I’m not that outgoing.
I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.
I feel like the type of music I’m making and who I am, people expect me to do well, but not be in the main spotlight.
I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you – you’re never not in the spotlight.
When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
I don’t think I’d ever be able to give up the spotlight.
I get bashful in the spotlight. Even at home or at a birthday party, I hate that stuff.
My brother works at Weetabix in Kettering. That was taken over, there were redundancies. My other brother is a builder who has lost jobs, lost work. Football is not immune from that, it just happens to be in more of a spotlight.
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.
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.
The responsibility I have is a great thing, from helping tennis grow in Canada, but also in the future, being able to do stuff through my foundation, helping kids, and helping everyone I can, and really trying to make a difference. It would be a shame to be in the spotlight, have a voice and not do much with it.
The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
The way you really find out about the performer’s seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don’t have a lot of respect for.
The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people on both sides are considerably passionate. This isn’t a typical nine-to-five job. It’s on a whole other level of intensity.
For better or worse, when you’re running for mayor, there’s a little bit of a spotlight on you.
This disease of addiction has touched not just me but millions of Americans out there. Me being in the spotlight, I want to tell my story because there are a lot of misconceptions. I want to let people out there know that there’s hope.
