Limelight Quotes - Page 2

• It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

  Audrey Tautou

  Might, Likes, Given

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• The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Heart, Mind, Enigma

  "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. 1952.

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• I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

  Eric Idle

  Soccer, Baseball, Nice

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• I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Zero, Book

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• The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

  Lowell Thomas

  Cutting, Men, Crowds

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• I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

  Ed Harris

  Careers, Decision, Made

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• With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Regret, School, Vegetarianism

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• I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.

  Eva Mendes

  Girl, Doors, Decision

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• My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!

  Lindsay Lohan

  Brother, Want, Entertainment

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• On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Thinking, People

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• Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

  Dennis Weaver

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

  Eva Green

  Lucky, Roles, Scripts

  Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.

  Curtis Joseph

  Kids, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Real, Wish

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• My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Marriage, Husband

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• I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

  Kid Rock

  Believe, People, Mouths

  "Kid Rock Offers Views on Music Industry, Politics … and Oprah". www.cmt.com. August 22, 2008.

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• When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

  Johnny Ramone

  New York, People, Wife

  Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.11, Abrams

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• I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

  Betsey Johnson

  Too Much, Type, Persons

  "Famous breast cancer survivors". www.today.com. April 9, 2010.

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• I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Hollywood, Tabloids, Likes

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• I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

  Cliff Floyd

  Boys, Trying, Stuff

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• Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

  Bruno Mars

  People, Becoming, Fame

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• I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

  Joan Collins

  Years, Living My Life, Paparazzi

  "The actor" by Cath Rapley, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2009.

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• Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

  Holly Golightly

  Girl, Wrecks, Shade

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• In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light.

  Kesha

  Night, Light, Play

  Song: The Harold Song, 2010

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• Im not interested in the limelight.

  Catherine Ashton

  Not Interested

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