Chekhov Plays Quotes

#1. Because in the end, we die. It's like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: 'in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

Zack Love

#2. You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary.

Anton Chekhov

#4. I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

George Carlin

#5. Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.

Tom Stoppard

#6. Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

Anton Chekhov

#7. We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Artemas Ward

#8. LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.

Anton Chekhov

#9. I was not abandoned as a child. I left.

Dane Cook

#10. In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

Anton Chekhov

#11. [Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.

Robert Dessaix

#12. If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take.

Robert Garland

#13. We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two," Lowell suggested.

Matthew Pearl

#14. One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies ... Be smart choosing your friends.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#15. When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

Annette Bening

#16. My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

Gene Wilder

#17. I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

Zeljko Ivanek

#18. Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

Terry Teachout

#19. I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

Neil Simon

#20. Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.

Anton Chekhov

#21. One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Dalai Lama