Applause Quotes · Page 11

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

— John Lithgow

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

— Andrew Cuomo

“I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.”

— Amit Kalantri

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding…

— Emanuel Ax

“A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.”

— Anthony Liccione

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

“If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.”

— Amit Kalantri

“To Frost House," I said. "To Frost House," they echoed. We clunked mugs and drank, to the applause of a deep rumble…

— Marianna Baer

“Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon…

— John Adams

“Those who do soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who…

— Rumi

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders…

— Alexander Pope

“I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it…

— Fannie Flagg

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little…

— William Feather

I have been on the deathbed so many times and had to be given oxygen while training. I did not know if…

— Milkha Singh

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes…

— Martin Yan

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of…

— Giancarlo Esposito

I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said…

— John Joseph Griffin

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The applause from the audience gives me a high. Probably that's what has kept my love for theatre intact.

— Y. G. Mahendran

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

— George Washington

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Reinhard Bonnke

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and…

— Anonymous

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause…

— Barbra Streisand

You hit a certain age, and you haven't died yet, and you become an elder statesman. I think I get a lot…

— Alan Arkin

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and…

— Selma Blair

Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its purpose & it may have…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

— Emanuel Ax

When you hear bacon cooking…that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking…that's applause.

— Jim Gaffigan

My advice wouldn't be good to anybody. I don't see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

— Lemmy

“No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of…

— Amit Kalantri

“Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.”

— Joseph Kerman

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

— Aberjhani

“I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when…

— Susan May Warren

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

— C. C. H. Pounder

“The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”

— W.M. Tory

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

“A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Franz Grillparzer