Quotes About Applause

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Pensai che se Teddy fosse stato lì al mio fianco, anche lui avrebbe visto il ratto. L'avrebbe visto eccome. E vi dirò un'altra cosa. Teddy? Lui avrebbe applaudito.

I love audiences.

You don't hit on every player. On every trade. On every draft pick. Show me a team that's hit on every one. And I'll applaud that team.

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

As an actor, I am happy that I am able to entertain the audience.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Abandoning the tiny story of me and embracing the forever Story of Jesus will allow our little lives to be filled with the wonder of God as we live for the unending applause of His name. And joining our small stories to His will give us what we all want most in life, anyway: the assurance that our brief moments on earth will count for something in a Story that never ends.

We see it when bullies are in charge. It becomes part of the culture of an institution, a family, an ethnic group, a country. It becomes not just acceptable, but expected. Applauded even.

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

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [ Said on his deathbed ]

Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of life, while concience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if concience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.

Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause Jumping in the Puddles of Life

People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'

There is always something wonderful about a live audience.

It's not just the winning I like, it's the affection you get for winning. It's a lovely feeling, that.

Driving Horace and Margot smoothly to the Armory, the new cabdriver thought about basketball. Why do they always applaud the man who makes the shot? Why don't they applaud the ball? It is the ball that actually goes into the net. The man doesn't go into the net. Never have I seen a man going into the net.

Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.

What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love? What if the people we consider to be great are actually the most broken? And what if the whole time they're seeking applause they are missing out on true intimacy because they've never learned how to receive it?

You are wired like you and I am wired like me. The more fully we live into ourselves, the more impact we will have. Acting may get us the applause we want, but taking a risk on being ourselves is the only path toward true intimacy. And true intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.