Spotlight Quotes

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. (Florenz Ziegfeld)
I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope. View quote
Lisa Guerrero
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. View quote
Patricia Heaton
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters. View quote
Alan Bennett
How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. View quote
Tim Robbins
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity. View quote
Fatema Mernissi
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight. View quote
Lauren Conrad
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. View quote
Riccardo Muti
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. View quote
Hayden Panettiere
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. (Holly Madison)
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. View quote
Angela Cartwright
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then. View quote
April Bowlby
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. View quote
Breyten Breytenbach
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. View quote
Bruce Sutter
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. View quote
Chad Harbach
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. View quote
Damon Hill
I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think. View quote
Emmy Rossum
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. View quote
Glenn Miller
There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good. View quote
Jiah Khan
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. (Jon English)
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family. View quote
Kate Burton
One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything. View quote
Liya Kebede
I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely. View quote
Miranda Otto
I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. View quote
Ryan Murphy