“I asked at my local cinema, if they were going to show Anna Karenina, they said no, but they had Anaconda.”

“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”

“On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.”

“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."- Vronksy {Anna Karenina}”

“Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it. Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it.”