Plot Quote by Stephen King

“Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.”

— F.H. Buckley

“If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.”

— Constantin S Stanislavski

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third…

— Harold Ramis

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you…

— Anton Chekhov

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

— Anton Chekhov

“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout”

— Yuval Noah Harari

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

— Anton Chekhov

“A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction.…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“It’s like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that…

— Herman Koch

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

— Constantin Stanislavski

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

“Over the last seventy years humankind has broken not only the Law of the Jungle, but also the Chekhov Law. Anton Chekhov famously said…

— Yuval Noah Harari