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

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

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

Golda Meir

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Carol Channing

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

Emanuel Ax

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Rudolf Bing

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Jim Dale

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Lynn Abbey

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Phyllis Diller

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

Brenda Lee

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm.

John Tyler

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Gustav Mahler

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

Matthew Perry

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Bertrand Russell

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Bob Dylan

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

Bo Diddley

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

Douglas Wood

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

Elaine Paige

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Raymond Hull

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.

Lance Morrow

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

Erykah Badu

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

I always get more applause than votes.

Norman Thomas

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

George Matthew Adams

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Warren Cuccurullo

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

John Polanyi

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Henri Nouwen

Popular applause veers with the wind.

John Bright

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

Randy West

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

Martin Yan

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

Kelsey Grammer

More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately, we end up right where we started when it's over. All we have is maybe a round of applause when we walk in a room - Hey, there's the champ! That's great; I want that, but I've got to have something tangible to show for it, too.

Andre Ward