Applause Quotes
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C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
Rita Moreno -
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.
George Albert Wells -
The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.
William Benton Clulow -
If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
William Benton Clulow -
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.
Alicia Markova -
Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
Ivor Novello
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.
George Madison Adams -
I always get more applause than votes.
Norman Thomas -
If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.
Georgy Zhukov -
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather -
When the house lights go down and the crowd goes wild, and then when you hear the applause at the end, it's incredible.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
Reinhard Bonnke
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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.
Selma Blair -
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
Homer -
People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
Evan Bayh -
Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name.
Mark Hart Crowded House