Ibsen Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

• Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit. — Liv Ullmann
• If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth… — Susannah York
• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
• I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a… — Alex Kingston
• I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. — Harvey Korman
• Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims… — George Steiner
• You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. — Mandy Patinkin
• You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things… — Philip Larkin
• She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. — P.G. Wodehouse
• A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good… — David Mamet
• I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen… — John Logan
• I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd
• So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be… — Trevor Nunn
• I spent the first half of my career doing nothing but Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, ancient Greek. People ask me, Oh, are you worried about getting… — Joe Manganiello
• I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man. — James Gandolfini

Who Wrote These Ibsen Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Ibsen Quotes as follows:

• 1 Ibsen Quote by James Gandolfini
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Susannah York
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Liv Ullmann
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Annie Dillard
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Alex Kingston
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Harvey Korman
• 1 Ibsen Quote by George Steiner
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Mandy Patinkin
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Philip Larkin
• 1 Ibsen Quote by P.G. Wodehouse
• 1 Ibsen Quote by David Mamet
• 1 Ibsen Quote by John Logan
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Diane Ladd
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Trevor Nunn
• 1 Ibsen Quote by Joe Manganiello