Quotes About Chekov

#1. I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

Kenneth Branagh

#2. I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Casey Wilson

#3. I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Orlando Bloom

#4. Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

Adam Rapp

#5. I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

Joe Anderson

#6. When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.

Brit Marling

#7. I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Jeremy Irvine

#8. I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

Andre Holland

#9. Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

Scarlett Thomas

#10. I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff

Tavis Smiley

#11. I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

Christine Woods

#12. I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.

Kate Beckinsale

#13. There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

Gene Roddenberry

#14. I like Chekov a lot.

Pierce Brosnan

#15. I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

Sienna Miller

#16. Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Cultivate a passion for truth.
Pursue a life of charity.
Enjoy the beauty found in every day.

Lisa Shea

#18. I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Damien Hirst

#19. When all ways are lost the way is clear.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. live well love hard and laugh often

Jack Hardy

#21. The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

Thomas Traherne

#22. Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Casey Stengel

#23. I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

Roger Staubach

#24. I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more.

Satya Bhabha

#25. Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.

Cecilia Bartholomew

#26. If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

Lev Grossman

#27. But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Barry McGuire

#28. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth