Arthur Miller Quotes - Page 8

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.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

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.

Be liked and you will never want.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. 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. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

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.

In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

More Weight -Giles Corey-

I am a good woman. I know it.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.