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Quotes About Applause

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
~ Jack Wild
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
~ Dale Carnegie
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.
~ Pliny the Younger
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
People applaud for success but find hard to applaud for the process that goes behind success. Learn to applaud for your own process. Create your own Success.
~ Purvi Raniga
I always get more applause than votes.
~ Norman Thomas
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
I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.
~ Peter Bofinger
Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.
~ Anna Netrebko
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
There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.
~ Drake
I was three years old, and I walked onstage during a performance that my father was a tenor in 'The Barber of Seville.' I walked out onstage, and people started laughing and clapping, and that was it. That was all it took. Laughing and clapping, I still enjoy today.
~ Rick Nielsen
There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.
~ Don Felder
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
I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
~ Dallas Roberts
I don't think you can ever get bored of winning awards.
~ James Maddison
I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.
~ John Carter Cash
I was at the Emmys, and someone told me that I'd gotten more applause than Brad Pitt. I said, 'Who's he?'
~ Rudy Boesch
I chose to dive into a pool of cold water in 'Ooty' though the director suggested that we use a stuntman. I was pleased with the applause but I took precautions.
~ Delhi Ganesh
There are some actors who have an interest in comedy but they can't say this openly. They do feel insecure about the comedian walking off with all the applause. In fact, I have seen my lines being changed and scenes being reworked to suit certain actors.
~ Johnny Lever
I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
~ Flip Wilson
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
~ Steven Gerrard
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
~ Wendell Phillips
It's nice to have one's work appreciated.
~ Daniel Silva