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!
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.
Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.
At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
It is my nature to thin where others read.
A man is as old as his arteries.
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea.
We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
Our business is with life, not death.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
