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
If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.
Robert Montgomery
I don`t know which I like best. I love the applause on the stage. But pictures are so fascinating - you reach many millions through them. And you make more money too. - in early 30s.
Ginger Rogers
(On getting into acting) "I guess I really started doing it in college and I mean clearly for every actor, there`s that sort of applause which is nice and all that stuff. I could never decide what to do and as an actor I get to be so many different things...
Paul Giamatti
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
Kathy Bates
I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac...
Giancarlo Esposito
You aim at all the things you have been told that stardom means -- the rich life, the applause, the parties cluttered with celebrities. Then you find that you have it all. And it is nothing, really nothing. It is like a drug that lasts just a few hours, a...
Susan Hayward
Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
Alex Solis
There`s an old joke that strippers work for money and burlesque dancers work for applause. For many of them, it`s not the way they make a living - they just do it because they like to do it.
Antonio Hernandez
The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
Phil Harris
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
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
Leni Riefenstahl
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
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
