Quotes About Fame

I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.

Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.

Growing up in the spotlight was quite possibly the worst for my self-esteem. I had a hard time finding confidence within myself.

Between 2014 and 2016, I was just, like, extremely sad. Like, really, really just not able to be in the spotlight.

The more success you have, the more attention and the more spotlight comes to your name.

There's a blessing that you're in a spotlight, but people follow you and want to keep asking you questions - it's just overwhelming sometimes.

I didn't really grow up in the spotlight.

I pick and choose when I want to be in spotlight, which is only connected to my work and when I need to use the media.

I only want to play, don't like the life in the spotlight.

The contrast of being in the spotlight when you're very young and then suddenly not can be really bad for your mental state.

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

I've never really been worried about being in the spotlight. I could care less.

You think the end of my freshman year, from nobody really knowing who I was to skyrocketing onto the scene in the national championship game, there's nothing but good things to say after that. Then you get into the spotlight and it turns to hate.

I've been careful, too careful maybe, about trying to not keep the spotlight on me.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

One wrong move by a star kid and it immediately comes under the spotlight - even blown out of proportion, at times.

I simply believe that I am that star that WWE is looking for. But in this business you have to be put in the right spotlight for that to be recognized. Give me that spotlight and you won't be able to look away.

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.

The bigger you become as a player and the more success you have as a player, the spotlight definitely becomes brighter.

I love playing in the spotlight... I feel like that's motivation for everyone.

Some people want the attention, some people want the spotlight, and that just wasn't it for me.

My life in the spotlight has cost me a lot.

You know, nothing comes free. If you want to chase fame, then fame has a price. You can't get convenient fame. You can't say, 'Hey! I want only the good things and for the bad things I do, look away.' So, if you crave for the spotlight, you pay for the spotlight.