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.
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.
It's really fun to have the spotlight and feel ready for it. Not in a conceited way. But just like, 'Man, I think I'm going to give you what you need.'
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
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.
The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.
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.
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.
I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.
I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.
I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating.
I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
Coming back to the UFC was huge. I was ready for the spotlight for the first time.
I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do anything.' If there was a camera around, I hid from it.
Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.
I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.
What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.
Whoever is in the spotlight, people are really quick to judge. I mean, there are a lot of kids coming up who've experienced that. You know, Justin Bieber, he's huge, and he experiences that. It's just the way the world works, unfortunately.
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?
I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
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.
Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.
Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
