Quotes About Applause

What you call idiot points I call awesome dollars

Even people who are immensely praised and have made an enormous amount of money, who have awards, success, and applause, can be deeply depressed. If you get closer and you prick the balloon, you realize they are just as insecure as everyone else. Underneath all that wealth, all that success, and all that praise, they are still a little person who asks, "Do you love me?" Nouwen, Henri J. M.. Following Jesus (p. 53). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

there is no kind of flattery so irresistible as this, at second hand.

Humility means] a deep sense of our own meanness, with a hearty [sincere (Johnson)] and affectionate [strongly moved; warm; zealous (Johnson)] acknowledgment of our owing all that we are to the divine bounty [generosity; liberality; munificence (Johnson)]; which is always accompanied with a profound submission to the will of God, and great deadness to the glory of the world, and the applause of men.

Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

That's my boy. Young Thug making hits!

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come—not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.

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

I think what maybe starts out when you're younger as being something about slightly showing off or being given applause because people think that you're good at something, as you get older it becomes less about that and it becomes more about the fascination of why people do the things that they do.

Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.

Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.

Grudging praise is the most flattering of all.

Behemot ukroi? sobie kawa?ek ananasa, posoli? go, popieprzy?, zjad?, a potem tak brawurowo chlapn?? drug? setk? spirytusu, ?e wszyscy zacz?li mu bi? brawo.

Koniec seansu! Maestro! Zasuwaj pan marsza!

Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

It is very rewarding to walk out on stage, feeling the love and reception.

That's my clever girl.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,' he said. This met with general applause. 'Ach, what a kind girl she is tae write that,' said Billy Bigchin. 'Can I see?' He read: Oh dear, the Feegles have turned up again. 'Ah,' he said.

The shields were enormous. In 'Julius Caesar,' I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until I was woken up by applause.