Quotes About Applause

The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Americans love winners, so if we win we know we'll get a lot of support.

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

Happy are the unentitled! Expecting the applause of others is a fool's enterprise! Do yourself a favor and assume nothing. If you go unnoticed, you won't be surprised. If you are noticed, you can celebrate.

No deje que la comezón por las cosas materiales ni el oído para los aplausos le descarrile de los designios que Dios tiene para usted.

You just said you were sorry. ... I was only apologizing, he said stiffly, for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-

Silence. We like it when an audience is silent, when no one coughs, no one shuffles, no one cracks a nut, or uncorks an ale bottle with a sudden hiss. Silence means the play is working, and we have the audience in our power. To a player, that breathless silence is better than applause, and that morning in the great hall my audience was silent.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialized skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

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.

If anyone boos you offstage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!

But you don't have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven.

the standing ovation from a rare and valued tribute

clap has too sharp a sting.

Yo había matado la quinta luna y bebían agua por las fuentes los abanicos y los aplausos

The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him.

A fart is just your arse applauding.

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

It was the eternal contest for reputation and prestige that encouraged Londoners to endow new hospitals or write great plays or crack the problem of longitude for the navy. No matter how agreeable your surroundings, you couldn't get famous by sitting around in some village, and that is still true today. You need people to acknowledge what you have done; you need a gallery for the applause; and above all you need to know what everyone else is up to.