There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did… — Dagmara Dominczyk Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov tells the truth neither out of love or respect for the truth, nor yet because, in the Kantian manner, a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason,… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
