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
THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.
The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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.
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.
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.
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,