Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Millerwas a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucibleand A View from the Bridge. He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. The drama Death of a Salesman 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 October 1915
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
More Weight -Giles Corey-
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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.
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?
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.