Amazed Quote by Neil Simon

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

— Uta Hagen

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

— Tobias Wolff

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

I fell in love with 19th-century Russian plays.

— Melissa Benoist

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

— Al Pacino

[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

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

— Chad Harbach

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every…

— Justin Theroux

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

— Vera Farmiga

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty…

— David Mamet

I thought I was going to be doing Chekhov plays.

— Chloe Fineman

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