Chekhov Quote by Geraldine James

[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have…

— Robert Dessaix

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

— Al Pacino

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

— Vera Farmiga

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

— Tobias Wolff

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

I thought I was going to be doing Chekhov plays.

— Chloe Fineman

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about…

— Tom Stoppard

Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert…

— Stephen Karam

“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.”

— Christina Westover

For some reason in England, the word 'Chekhovian' is associated with drifting about with a parasol, a lot of weeping, and drinking tea from…

— Geraldine James

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

— Uta Hagen