You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
