I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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!
I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov as an influence because he influenced all of us. Like Shakespeare his writing shed the most perfect light - there's no striving in it, no personality. Well, of course, wouldn't I love to do that
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
The difference from project to project is that departure point. In this case, it was really an abstract idea, an issue of citizenship, but it might be a Chekhov short story or a story from 'The Iliad.' You can really fit anything in there, but what's consistent is that the writer and the director are chosen, the actors are all present before the play begins.
I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.
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.
'Do you know,' Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, 'for how many years I shall be read Seven.' 'Why seven' Bunin asked. 'Well,' Chekhov answered, 'seven and a half then.'
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