Applause Quotes

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.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

I always get more applause than votes.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Old men need applause too.

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.