Quotes About Applause

Don't be looking for trifles, Señor Don Quixote, or expect things to be impossibly perfect. Are not a thousand comedies performed almost every day that are full of inaccuracies and absurdities, yet they run their course and are received not only with applause but with admiration and all the rest?

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.

I've a long time trying to love a brother whose only way of touching me is pain. A long time escaping into music. Practice, lessons, rehearsals that protect me from the hurting parts of life. I've been winning awards, applause, acclaim for my trumpets since I was in grade school. But love? The word catches in my throat. Do I love anything? Have i forgotten how?

Prayer is the weary soul of Herod's dancer, Dancing before blind kings without applause.

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.

Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

I don't know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too.

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

I love performing. There is an ego in me that loves to be in front of people.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

Now this little gal isn't much of a singer," she would say. "She learned singing by a correspondence course, and she missed a coupla lessons, but she's the nicest little gal in the whole show, so I want ya to give her a big hand.

At 2 P.M., two long, cold hours after starting, Everett concluded his speech to thunderous applause—motivated, one is bound to suspect, more by the joy of realizing it was over than by any message derived from the content—and

Here comes the great Kaka!

I think clapping is how mourn.

You may glamorize snakes from the ears of King Malban and you will hear nothing from me but polite applause.

They'd won a lot of admirers that season but finished up with nothing. You can't put applause in a trophy cabinet.

Sus conquistas son como un sueño, las olvida al despertar cuando los aplausos lo traen de vuelta, a él que anda tan lejos viviendo su cuarto de hora de minuto y medio.

Se creen sabios porque han juntado un montón de libros y se lo han comido. Me da risa, porque en realidad son buenos muchachos y viven convencidos de que lo que estudian y lo que hacen son cosas muy difíciles y profundas. En el circo es igual, y entre nosotros es igual. La gente se figura que algunas cosas son el colmo de la dificultad, y por eso aplauden a los trapecistas.

El orador estuvo muy bien. No dijo nada y lo vivaron. Era perfecto. Nosotros, los que deberíamos decir algo, aquí estamos como ves hablándonos bajito por miedo a que nos muelan a palos. El orador encaja mucho mejor que nosotros.