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.

- Craig Brown

I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.

- Gypsy Rose Lee

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

- Gemma Ward

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

- George Michael

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 don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

- Emmy Rossum

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

- Edward Snowden

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.

- Donald Trump, Jr.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

- David Beckham

I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

- Carl Forti

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.

- Alessia Cara

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

- Christine Quinn

I don't think I'd ever be able to give up the spotlight.

- Chris Jericho

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

- Brian Eno

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.

- April Bowlby

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

- Ali Larter

When I am not on the stage, it is always very difficult for the public to find me! I am a private person who does not always want to be in the spotlight!

- Anna Netrebko

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.

- Angela Cartwright

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.

- Amar'e Stoudemire

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

- Anne Hathaway