The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and… — Carey Mulligan 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
I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. — John Cameron Mitchell 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
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles 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
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest… — Bernadette Peters Copy Share Image
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new… — Zeljko Ivanek Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
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