Quotes by Arthur Miller

About Arthur Miller:

Arthur Asher Miller is often numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar Named Desire.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Arthur Miller

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Arthur Miller

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Arthur Miller

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Arthur Miller

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Arthur Miller

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

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Arthur Miller

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

Arthur Miller

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Arthur Miller

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

Arthur Miller

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Arthur Miller

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Arthur Miller

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Arthur Miller

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

Arthur Miller

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

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An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameArthur Miller
  • Descriptionplaywright from the United States
  • BornOctober 17, 1915
  • DiedFebruary 10, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Writer; Essayist
  • WorksDeath Of A Salesman; The Crucible; A View From The Bridge; All My Sons
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Pulitzer Prize For Drama; Primetime Emmy Award; Prince Of Asturia Literary Prize; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Speech; Praemium Imperiale