“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and… — 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
The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing… — 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
The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better. But the truth is holy, and even as… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in… — 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
