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title: "132 Chekhov Quotes by 103 authors"
description: "Browse 132 Chekhov quotes by 103 authors. Discover the best Chekhov sayings and thoughts."
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> [Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vera-farmiga/chekhov-when-it-s-done-well-and-you-re-ready-for-it-can-actually-be/)

[Vera Farmiga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vera-farmiga/)

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> [I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tobias-wolff/i-love-chekhov-i-could-go-on-all-day-about-him/)

[Tobias Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tobias-wolff/)

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> [I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uta-hagen/i-love-playing-chekhov-that-s-the-hardest-that-s-why-i-love-it-most/)

[Uta Hagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uta-hagen/)

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> [Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/chekhov-shall-i-be-blunt-is-the-greatest-short-story-writer-who-ever/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-arkin/unless-you-re-doing-shakespeare-or-chekhov-the-written-word-is-not/)

[Alan Arkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-arkin/)

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> [No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/no-author-has-created-with-less-emphasis-such-pathetic-characters-as/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-pacino/chekhov-was-as-important-to-me-as-anybody-as-a-writer/)

[Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-pacino/)

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> [I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-korman/i-played-hamlet-i-played-chekhov-and-ibsen-and-all-the-classics/)

[Harvey Korman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-korman/)

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> [An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-messud/an-abiding-preoccupation-for-me-is-how-much-of-our-lives-are/)

[Claire Messud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-messud/)

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> [Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chad-harbach/another-older-writer-that-had-a-huge-influence-on-me-is-chekhov-more/)

[Chad Harbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chad-harbach/)

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> [I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dagmara-dominczyk/i-m-always-keeping-an-eye-out-for-a-period-piece-i-was-trained-in/)

[Dagmara Dominczyk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dagmara-dominczyk/)

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> [Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/very-often-in-chekhov-where-he-exhibits-a-little-bit-of-human/)

[Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/)

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> [The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-socratic-demonstration-of-the-ultimate-unity-of-tragic-and-comic/)

[George Steiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-steiner/)

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> [“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-h-buckley-2/anton-chekhov-said-that-when-the-audience-sees-a-loaded-pistol-on-the/)

[F.H. Buckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-h-buckley-2/)

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> [You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-parkinson/you-do-develop-a-taste-as-an-actress-chekhov-ayckbourn-it-s-the/)

[Katherine Parkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-parkinson/)

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> [If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-mendes/if-you-re-doing-a-classic-play-where-if-you-do-a-chekhov-you-do-the/)

[Sam Mendes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-mendes/)

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> [I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-c-gainey/i-realized-that-after-years-of-studying-shakespeare-and-chekhov-and/)

[M. C. Gainey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-c-gainey/)

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> [I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-putin/i-love-the-russian-classics-very-much-the-russian-classical/)

[Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-putin/)

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> [I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benedict-cumberbatch/i-had-a-very-sparse-comic-upbringing-not-because-i-was-being-whipped/)

[Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benedict-cumberbatch/)

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> [When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-callis/when-i-was-at-drama-school-in-the-u-k-i-was-there-for-two-and-a-half/)

[James Callis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-callis/)

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> [I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zeljko-ivanek/i-thought-i-would-spent-my-career-doing-chekhov-and-ibsen-in-regional/)

[Zeljko Ivanek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zeljko-ivanek/)

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> [When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akhil-sharma/when-you-read-chekhov-everything-has-an-even-gray-tone-when-you-read/)

[Akhil Sharma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akhil-sharma/)

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> [Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/read-the-great-stuff-but-read-the-stuff-that-isn-t-so-great-too-great/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ruffalo/i-come-from-the-theatre-where-there-are-no-boundaries-to-the-style/)

[Mark Ruffalo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ruffalo/)

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> [“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/if-he-tells-the-truth-it-is-because-the-most-reeking-lie-no-longer/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

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> [“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/with-a-novel-which-takes-perhaps-years-to-write-the-author-is-not-the/)

[Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/)

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> [“To define his tendency in a word, I would say that Chekhov was the poet of hopelessness. Stubbornly, sadly, monotonously, during all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/to-define-his-tendency-in-a-word-i-would-say-that-chekhov-was-the/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

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> [The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vanessa-redgrave/the-great-writers-like-chekhov-know-that-tragedy-and-laughter-are/)

[Vanessa Redgrave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vanessa-redgrave/)

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> [I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainn-wilson/i-really-like-the-stuff-that-is-very-absurd-and-very-real-at-the-same/)

[Rainn Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainn-wilson/)

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> [If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-carver/if-we-re-lucky-writer-and-reader-alike-we-ll-finish-the-last-line-or/)

[Raymond Carver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-carver/)

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> [I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-was-deeply-influenced-by-the-sartorial-practices-of-both-preachers/)

[Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/)

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> [Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emilia-clarke/personally-i-d-like-as-many-children-as-i-can-pop-out-i-reckon-you/)

[Emilia Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emilia-clarke/)

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> [“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-l-stull/after-moving-his-family-from-yakima-to-paradise-california-in-1958-he/)

[William L. Stull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-l-stull/)

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> [I thought I was going to be doing Chekhov plays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chloe-fineman/i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-doing-chekhov-plays/)

[Chloe Fineman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chloe-fineman/)

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> [Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cameron-mitchell/ibsen-chekhov-shakespeare-and-beckett-to-me-are-the-most-revolutionary/)

[John Cameron Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cameron-mitchell/)

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> [Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/reading-chekhov-was-just-like-the-angels-singing-to-me/)

[Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/)

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> [I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-m-not-a-walking-extra-in-a-chekhov-play-i-m-no-slavic-gloom-or-2/)

[Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/)

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> [As with Shakespeare, we keep revisiting Chekhov.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-james/as-with-shakespeare-we-keep-revisiting-chekhov/)

[Geraldine James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-james/)

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> [I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-maccallum/i-m-sort-of-nerdy-i-liked-shakespeare-and-chekhov-and-the-classics/)

[Martha MacCallum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-maccallum/)

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> [I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/i-think-probably-i-ve-been-influenced-by-chekhov-and-walt-disney-if/)

[Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/)

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## Top authors on Chekhov

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tom-stoppard-91582.jpg) Tom Stoppard 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chekhov/tom-stoppard/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-lev-shestov-59969.jpg) Lev Shestov 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chekhov/lev-shestov/)

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                        "text": "“To define his tendency in a word, I would say that Chekhov was the poet of hopelessness. Stubbornly, sadly, monotonously, during all the years of his literary activity, nearly a quarter of a century long, Chekhov was doing one alone: by one means or another he was killing human hopes. Herein, I hold, lies the essence of his creation. Hitherto it has been little spoken of. The reasons are quite intelligible. In ordinary language what Chekhov was doing is called crime, and is visited by condign punishment. But how can a man of talent be punished?”",
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                        "text": "The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.",
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                        "text": "If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, \"created of warm blood and nerves\" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.",
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                        "text": "Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I'd like to be on stage at England's National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. And to be making some Oscar-worthy movies with Scorsese. I'm always looking for the hard road. That way, you remain interested and interesting. Hopefully.",
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                        "text": "“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship under the soon-to-be-famous John Gardner, the first \"real writer\" he had ever met. \"He offered me the key to his office,\" Carver recalled in his preface to Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist (1983). \"I see that gift now as a turning point.\" In addition, Gardner gave his student \"close, line-by-line criticism\" and taught him a set of values that was \"not negotiable.\" Among these values were convictions that Carver held until his death. Like Gardner, whose On Moral Fiction (1978) decried the \"nihilism\" of postmodern formalism, Carver maintained that great literature is life-connected, life-affirming, and life-changing. \"In the best fiction,\" he wrote \"the central character, the hero or heroine, is also the ‘moved’ character, the one to whom something happens in the story that makes a difference. Something happens that changes the way that character looks at himself and hence the world.\" Through the 1960s and 1970s he steered wide of the metafictional \"funhouse\" erected by Barth, Barthelme and Company, concentrating instead on what he called \"those basics of old-fashioned storytelling: plot, character, and action.\" Like Gardner and Chekhov, Carver declared himself a humanist. \"Art is not self-expression,\" he insisted, \"it’s communication.”",
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