Applause Quotes

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.

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

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

Applause waits on success.

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.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

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.

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

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Evil report carries further than any applause.

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.

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

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.

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

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.