Top 418 Applause Quotes & Sayings

Popular applause veers with the wind.

All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

As a performer, we look for applause.

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

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

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

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

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird.

From self alone expect applause.

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

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

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

Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round of applause, how do you feel?' Right? 'By a round of applause, how you feeling?' It's the only place in the world that you judge how you're feeling by a round of applause... There's never like a car accident, people all over the ground, people running over - 'Ma'am! Ma'am! By a round of applause, how do you feel? By a round of applause - she's not clapping!

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

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.

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

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

Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

It was all cheese and applause.

I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

I need the applause.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

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

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

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

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

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

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

Applause waits on success.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

Old men need applause too.

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Applause abates diligence.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

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.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.