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There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

I need the applause.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

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

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.

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.

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

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

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!