Quotes About Applause

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Their cheers and applause told her all she needed to know. Her magic no longer felt like a shackle. It was truly a gift, as her mother had always told her, and now she used it with joy instead of fear.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'

I love positivity. I'm always saying, 'Well done' - maybe too often, in fact.

The best encouragement is when your films run and people who watch it say 'Well done.'

You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

It's very flattering to be praised for each of your efforts.

We all want to be praised, right?

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean the show's been rather a success.

And then for English verses, he said, they could not be certain of lasting applause, the changes of our language being so great and sudden, that the rarest poems within few years will pass for obsolete; and therefore he used to liken the writers in English verse to ladies, that have their pictures drawn with the clothes now worn, which, though at present never so rich, and never so much in fashion, within a few years hence will make them look like anticks.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.