Children are the most wonderful audiences. What`s struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
- Emma ThompsonThere are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
- James CaanI think I get a very unfortunate view of the press. I think of what is written about me, about 5% of it is accurate. I`m not comfortable with them, they`re not comfortable with me. I certainly am not comfortable with photographers. -1970`s (Talking about his days as a member of the Actor`s Studio) I remember someone who helped me a lot in my early days. We were just rehearsing a scene and I remember she stopped me with an absolute rifle shot of a clap and grabbed my shirt and said `You are not thinking, you are just thinking you are thinking.` And if you watch actors, you can tell those who don`t necessarily indicate in broad strokes what`s going on, but you can really see in their eyes that they are going through a process."
- Paul NewmanI started as a dancer when I was a little kid. I realized I didn`t like dancing as much as being onstage and having people clap for me. That`s how I segued into acting, the shortened version.
- Amber BensonWould those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you`ll just rattle your jewelry.
- John LennonWill all the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you`ll just rattle your jewelry. (At Royal Variety Performance 4th November 1963)
- John LennonIt takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
- Akshay KumarWe can`t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
- Will RogersI`d get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn`t clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
- Jim DaleTo have a lot of people clap is not my goal, so it took me a few years to realize that I am an artist more than a wannabe rock `n` roll star.
- Paul WesterbergDon`t clap too hard - it`s a very old building.
- John OsborneThis clap of lightning went boom! It was like somebody had shot him. The lightning went right through him... It was horrible.
- Judy ThompsonIn matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
- Alex LathamI have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
- Alex LenahanDon't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.
- Dylan MoranIt takes two hands to clap.
- Jiang Zemin