Arthur Adamov Quotes

Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

All the world's a stage.

I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

I called Scott Rudin, and I told him I wanted to do the play [Fences], so that's how the ball got rolling. I never said, "I'll do the play, and the next year I'll do the film, I just wanted to do the play."

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.

I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.

There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

I believe there is an unseen world all around us.

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.