Actresses Quote by Anton Chekhov

“An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.” quote by Anton Chekhov — Download Open image

“An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.”

Anton Chekhov

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Actresses Dinner Felt Felt Sorry Forty Forty years old Honest Sensible Sorry Talent Years

More by Anton Chekhov

“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician,…

Anton Chekhov

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

Anton Chekhov

Image

There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,…

Anton Chekhov

Image

“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had…

Anton Chekhov

Image

“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,…

Anton Chekhov

Image

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Anton Chekhov

Image

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you…

Anton Chekhov

“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but…

Anton Chekhov

Image

“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,…

Anton Chekhov

Image

“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.”

Anton Chekhov

Image

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…

Anton Chekhov

Image

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

Anton Chekhov

Image

Explore all 679 Anton Chekhov quotes

More Actresses quotes

I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need…

Sutton Foster

Image

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions…

Sandra Bullock

Image

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

Lawrence Schiller

Image

By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like any adult guardian of a seventeen-year-old daughter, they were not thrilled with my plan to run off to the LA to make it as an actress. Even a somewhat functioning parent would think that was a…

Amber Heard