Ibsen Quotes

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She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

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

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.