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
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story… — Claire Messud 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'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
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
“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
You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want… — Katherine Parkinson 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
I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust… — M. C. Gainey Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin 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
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 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
When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It… — Akhil Sharma 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
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“To define his tendency in a word, I would say that Chekhov was the poet of hopelessness. Stubbornly, sadly, monotonously, during all… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
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 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
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
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West 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
“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
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. — John Cameron Mitchell 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
I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics. — Martha MacCallum 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
