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.
Joaquin Phoenix

Beautiful, Yourself, Person

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

Laughter, Getting, Stage

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.
Donny Osmond

Love, Fun, Thought

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.
Alec Waugh

Success, May, Himself

The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
Dan Stevens

Sometimes, Here, Show

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Elias Canetti

Success, Else, Deaf

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

Cannot, Level, Express

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.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Men, Young, Universe

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

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.
Selma Blair

Love, Blessed, Goes

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

Moment, Audience, Shared

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

Excited, Praises

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

Laughter, Important, Almost

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.
George Matthew Adams

Great, Famous, Successful

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.
Evan Bayh

Life, Ego, Different

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis

Often, Film, Actor

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

Different, Matter, Behind

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.
Jim Dale

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

Nothing, Unexpected, Round

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

Find, Criticism, Test

Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.
Tom Baker

Good, Wife, Give

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

Nothing, High, Stage

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.
Angela Bassett

Time, School, Alive

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

Everything, Down, Else

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.
Gwen Ifill

Time, Freedom, Long

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.
Randy West

Powerful, Laughter, Feeling

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

Car, Give, Months

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.
Nina Arianda

Hit, Performing, Jersey

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
Kathy Bates

Mother, Thought, Tell

Popular applause veers with the wind.
John Bright

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