Chekhov Quote by Vera Farmiga Download Open image “Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.” — Vera Farmiga ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chekhov Done Ready Wells
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I had lots of jobs. For instance I sold lingerie. Doing that I realized how faking an eastern European or French accent can boost… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I'm not in this for the achievement. I'm in it for the illumination. That's how I choose my roles, that's how I attract roles,… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted attention, so I started praying for glasses because everyone had ace vision in my family. Then one day my… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow… — Vera Farmiga 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
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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