Michelle Shocked Quotes

You know what happens if I walk out on the stage in Montreal? They stand up and they cheer for three or four minutes. It just brings tears to your eyes, because it's a love affair.

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

I know how much people loved me as Akshara; I have seen the appreciation.

It's humbling when people sing back to you!

There is no bigger certificate than audience appreciation.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.

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.

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

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.