Applause Quotes

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

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

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

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

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

Applause waits on success.

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

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.