Chekhov Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

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.

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

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.

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

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

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

Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!

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.

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.

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

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.

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.