Spotlight Quotes

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

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

I liked being in the spotlight.

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

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.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

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

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

Having shaved my head for the role put a spotlight on me.

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

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.

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.

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.

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

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 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.

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

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

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