Chekhov Quotes

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
David Bailey

Character, Hard, Play

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
Vladimir Nabokov

Less, Pathetic, Characters

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
George Saunders

Greatest, Short, Story

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

Life, Age, Mind

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

Love, Why, Playing

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
Tom Hardy

Theatre, Stage, Dramas

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

Gay, Woman, Career

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

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
Harvey Korman

Played, Hamlet, Classics

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.
Marina Sirtis

Life, Show, Star

I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
Dagmara Dominczyk

Theatre, Eye, Piece

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