Quotes About Applause

He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost every sentence, like delegates at a political convention, At other moments we rose in our seats and yelled. There was something hypnotic in his rhythm and phrasing. His power over his auditors was absolute. {Garland's thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll }

When the world stops booing the church and begins to applaud it, its enthusiasm ought to arouse the Christian's suspicion.

I do what I think I'm meant to do, but I find it hard. The noise of the applause – the din, that sense of mental concussion – is like the shooting up on the hill, only I was more comfortable there. More at ease. Since I can't reasonably start shooting anyone now, I just shrink into myself and wait for it all to stop. For

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Members of Congress, outraged by the events at Selma, forty times interrupted his address with applause. Johnson closed by raising his thumbs, fists clenched, and proclaiming, Their cause must be our cause, too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And, we shall . . . overcome.

The stage is one place where you come face to face with your audience, unlike cinemas where you cannot see the applause or the booing by the audience.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

The right man applauds your potential, he doesn't stifle it.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to be willing to shake it off, and to not fall in love with the applause either.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

I love being onstage, I love getting applause, and I love the love that comes across the footlights. It's so much a part of what I do and what I've done most of my life.

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

I hope I'm Jessica Tandy, you know. I hope I'm onstage, and I fall over at 85 or something with everyone applauding thinking that it was a joke, you know, 'There she goes again,' and I'm just gone. I've gone to Heaven.

I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.