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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.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'

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.

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

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

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

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

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.