Applause Quotes

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Applause waits on success.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

I need the applause.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.