After Quote by M. C. Gainey

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was…

— Zeljko Ivanek

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was…

— Bernadette Peters

I thought I was going to be doing Chekhov plays.

— Chloe Fineman

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

— Jane Lynch

'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

— Jason Statham

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you…

— Tom Hanks

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily,…

— Richard McCabe

I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became…

— Carey Mulligan

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's Lane, and…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went…

— Rachael Harris

I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working…

— Nico Santos

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going…

— Michael Ball