Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“(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 Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image