Top 100 Quotes About Arthur Miller
#1. I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
Jay Maisel
#2. Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.
David Bezmozgis
#3. Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.
Meredith Willson
#4. Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.
Michael Mando
#5. I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'
John Benjamin Hickey
#6. And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
James Earl Jones
#7. Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
Oscar Levant
#8. Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller.
Nicholas Samstag
#9. Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
Edward Albee
#10. When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.
Simon McBurney
#11. I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#12. And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.
Peter Krause
#13. I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].
Rebecca Miller
#14. Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
Marilyn Monroe
#15. 'Twenty One Pilots' is a play by Arthur Miller, who also wrote 'All My Sons.' It's about a guy who's creating and developing parts for airplanes in war time, when it comes to his attention that some of these parts were faulty.
Josh Dun
#16. Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
Arthur Miller
#17. The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller
#19. What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
Arthur Miller
#20. The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Arthur Miller
#21. Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
Arthur Miller
#23. When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
Arthur Miller
#24. Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Arthur Miller
#26. Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
Arthur Miller
#28. All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space
Arthur Miller
#29. Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.
Arthur Miller
#31. Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
Arthur Miller
#32. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
Arthur Miller
#33. I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
Arthur Miller
#34. Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
Arthur Miller
#35. I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
Arthur Miller
#36. The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.
Arthur Miller
#37. Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
#38. You want to live? You better figure out your life.
Arthur Miller
#39. I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur Miller
#40. The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.
Arthur Miller
#41. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
#42. A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
Arthur Miller
#43. Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
Arthur Miller
#44. He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.
Arthur Miller
#45. I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
never met any.
Arthur Miller
#46. I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Arthur Miller
#47. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back
that's an earthquake. And then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished.
Arthur Miller
#48. PROCTOR
he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
Arthur Miller
#50. Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?
Arthur Miller
#51. The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
Arthur Miller
#52. When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.
Arthur Miller
#53. The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out,
Arthur Miller
#54. Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
Arthur Miller
#55. When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
Arthur Miller
#56. In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
Arthur Miller
#57. To go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what
Arthur Miller
#58. Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it.
'Do that which is good,and no harm shall come to thee.
Arthur Miller
#59. That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
Arthur Miller
#61. Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
Arthur Miller
#62. If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
Arthur Miller
#63. Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller
#64. An everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
Arthur Miller
#65. He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Arthur Miller
#66. Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
Arthur Miller
#67. Guido: She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.
Roslyn: Maybe that's what killed her.
Arthur Miller
#68. Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
Arthur Miller
#69. Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.
Arthur Miller
#71. So many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
Arthur Miller
#72. Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
#73. The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur Miller
#74. You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.
Arthur Miller
#75. The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Arthur Miller
#76. Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
Arthur Miller
#77. Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Arthur Miller
#78. A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
Arthur Miller
#79. I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing
his sense of personal dignity.
Arthur Miller
#80. I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
Arthur Miller
#81. The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller
#82. There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.
Arthur Miller
#84. The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller
#85. I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
Arthur Miller
#86. Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody o live in it.
Arthur Miller
#87. A wild thing may say wild things. But not so wild, I think.
Arthur Miller
#88. It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Arthur Miller
#89. We have not many wills, but only one
it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.
Arthur Miller
#91. I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.
Arthur Miller
#92. For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
Arthur Miller
#93. The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Arthur Miller
#94. Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
Arthur Miller
#95. A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong
if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.
Arthur Miller
#96. What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Arthur Miller
#97. PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say
I say
God is dead!
Arthur Miller
#98. People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
Arthur Miller
#99. My salvation is that I never took any interest in anything.
Arthur Miller
#100. If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
Arthur Miller
