Old men need applause too.

- Don Everly

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

- Jay Mohr

I need the applause.

- Jerry Lewis

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

- Ivor Novello

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

- Golda Meir

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

- Emanuel Ax

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

- Emanuel Ax

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

- Elias Canetti

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

- Edmund Hillary

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

- Andrew Cuomo

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

- Douglas Wood

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

- Dale Carnegie

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

- Dale Carnegie

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

- Claudia Christian

Applause waits on success.

- Benjamin Franklin

Evil report carries further than any applause.

- Baltasar Gracian

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

- Anita Baker

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

- Alfred Jarry

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

- Anupam Kher