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
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
He's liked, but he's not well liked.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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 jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
Now we're eating pizza as opposed to steak.
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
Now we settle for half and I like it better.
I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has
It looks like Gary Bauer is winning, but it also looks like there aren't enough of them to swing this in his direction,
If you don't put something away in some type of investment plan that has restrictions, the money will probably disappear because if it's in our hot hands, it tends to get spent.
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 . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.