#chekhov

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

— George Saunders

#chekhov #ever #greatest #i #lived

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#love-and-other-stories #short-stories #faith

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#books #education #learning #wisdom #age

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

#admired #always #answer #building #busy

If you want to work on your art, work on your life. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#art

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

#career #challenging #chekhov #gay #jewish

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

#characters #chekhov #entertainment #fan #goes

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#life

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 #chekhov #depends #film #getting

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

— Harvey Korman

#classics #hamlet #i #ibsen #played