Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. —Anton Chekhov” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.” — F.H. Buckley 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
Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little… — Tom Stoppard 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
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. — Tom Stoppard 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
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
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea… — Al Pacino 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 come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one… — James Callis 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
“A bit of ideology and being up to date is most apropos,” Chekhov said—tongue in cheek, I suspect. In a more serious… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have… — Roman Polanski 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
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner 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
“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
There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. He says, "The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living." That scene has… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship… — William L. Stull Copy Share Image
I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics. — Martha MacCallum 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
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just… — George Saunders 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
I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives,… — Stephen Karam 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
![“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ff6/william-faulkner-306_absolutes_yes-sir-you-can-be-more-careless-you-can_1716854.jpg)
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