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
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Be liked and you will never want.
If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
We were eating out regularly, perhaps four to five nights a week. Now we're eating out twice.
The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks
A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre
I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has
Now we settle for half and I like it better.
Now we're eating pizza as opposed to steak.
It looks like Gary Bauer is winning, but it also looks like there aren't enough of them to swing this in his direction,