What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.
I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.
When pressure's on and when the spotlight's on, I feel like it ultimately ends up becoming some of my better moments.
I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.
For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.
Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.
I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.
There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
[Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.
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.
I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.
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 was never one to seek out the spotlight.
There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get me and what it can buy me in the fact that my music will hopefully reach more people. But it also makes me a little bit miserable because the minute the spotlight is on you, people start flinging sh*t at you for whatever reason.
