Quotes About Spotlight

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

As Nietzsche says about Christians, you can tell from their faces that they don't enjoy doing what they do. Fiction writers cluster in the unlit corners of the room, silently observing everybody, including the poets, who are usually having a fine time in the center spotlight, making a spectacle of themselves as they eat the popcorn and drink the beer and gossip about other poets.

If you can't fix it, feature it.

Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess—up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries under a hot spotlight that shows off my sweat stains( including one that sort of looks like Jabba the Hutt), with about a thousand beady eyeballs drilling into me?

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

I've pretty much always been in the limelight. A star in my own right.

I'm forever in the 'limelight' being Da Brat, being an entertainer, being a star.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

A lot of young guys coming up in this league, they're given the spotlight right away, depending on draft stature or whatever the case may be.

My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.

You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

Being in the spotlight, you're always picked apart. It's not easy. But over time I've realized that you can't please everyone and when you feel overwhelmed, just take a step back. Love yourself first.

It's good to be noticed.

The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.

Man, or woman, is not made to be worshiped. We are not physically cut out for it. Life in the spotlight, on the pedestal, at the top of the world was a lonely, singular, desolate, soul-killing place.

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

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

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.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they're stopping for me.