Chekhov Quote by Orson Welles Download Open image “I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.” — Orson Welles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chekhov Extra Gloom Irish Play Sad Walking
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be consoled or… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and in the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
