I’ve wondered all my working life why people don’t retire in showbusiness, and it’s fairly simple. There’s nobody applauding at home, so we keep going.
Applause Quotes
In the most general applause discordant voices will always be heard.
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
It frequently happens that applause abates diligence. Whosoever finds himself to have performed more than was demanded will be contented to spare the labor of unnecessary performances, and sit down to enjoy at ease his superfluities of honor.
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism.
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if conscience disapproves, the loudest applause of the world are of little value.
I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, with a hang noose at the end.
