Applause Quotes

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

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

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

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.

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

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

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

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.

Applause waits on success.

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.

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

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.

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

I need the 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!

Popular applause veers with the wind.

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 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.

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

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

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.

Old men need applause too.

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

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.

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.

Evil report carries further than any applause.