Chekhov – Quotes

Reading Chekhov was just

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me. Eudora Welty

Personally, I’d like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family. And in the same breath, I’d like to be on stage at England’s National Theatre, doing Miller and Chekhov. Give me a Sam Mendes/Tennessee Williams combination-that would be glorious. … Read more

Read the great stuff,

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 Chekhov, you’ll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union. Edward Albee

A play is basically

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian – yet we understand Chekhov … Read more

I’m not interested in

I’m not interested in teaching books by women. David Gilmour

Actors are hard to

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

Im always keeping an

Im 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

I was deeply influenced

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my favorite writer’s master piece,Three Sisters,when she arrives reflecting on whether they’re ever going to get to Moscow, memories of the death of their father, and she’s in black, and she says … Read more

The conversation with the

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison – you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive. Cornel West

You have to teach

You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools – and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I’ve used them all along and still do. Clint Eastwood