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Quotes About Applause

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
~ Pat Conroy
People loving my performances give me a kick.
~ Vikrant Massey
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.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
Peter wore a grin from ear to ear. "You did great!
~ Brom
Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even years on occasion, for the splatter of applause to reach our ears, if indeed we are not damned by total neglect.
~ Bryan Forbes
El pueblo me silba, pero yo me aplaudo en mi casa mientras contemplo cariñosamente las monedas en mi caja fuerte.
~ Homer
We should clap or something. Curran said. She's trying so hard.
~ Ilona Andrews
Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
Power is not nearly enough for Trump. Power he already possessed, starting with the money his father gave him, which grew into the money he never paid in taxes because he is 'smart.' No: Power and ambition pale in comparison to Trumpbeth's rapacious grab for applause.
~ Faith Salie
I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
~ Chadwick Boseman
Every artists wants to be applauded
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.
~ Sue Patton Thoele
My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'
~ Christian Slater
Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.
~ Mitch Albom
denn Applaus hat nur einen Wert, wenn er im gerechten Moment eintrifft. Als welke Spätblume ist er nichts als Beleidigung und Schimpf.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I felt very happy when people mentioned that I had done a good job in my debut flick.
~ Vijay Antony
I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.
~ Dierks Bentley
People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.
~ Gwen Ifill
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.
~ Chelsea Handler
Nothing but disaster follows from applause.
~ Thomas Bernhard
We humbly beg your kind applause," murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face.
~ Thomas Keneally
Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable--it is sumpathy.
~ Thomas Mann