Spotlight Quotes

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

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 liked being in the spotlight.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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