1.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
Uta Hagen
2.
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.
Vladimir Putin
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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
George Saunders
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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
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Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.
Vera Farmiga
8.
I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.
Isabelle Huppert
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I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
Harvey Korman
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
Al Pacino
11.
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 define traditional conflict as we understand it.
Alexander Weinstein
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I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
Tobias Wolff
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Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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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 sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.
Orson Welles
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If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.
Sam Mendes
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Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.
Chad Harbach
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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 back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.
Chad Harbach