A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Arthur Miller More Quotes by Arthur Miller More Quotes From Arthur Miller ... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock. Arthur Miller clockdecisionmade Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. Arthur Miller weightgivingtwo Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh. Arthur Miller laughterheartlaughing The brain heals the past like an injury. Arthur Miller injurybrainpast Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up. Arthur Miller intelligentgirlblow Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. 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. Arthur Miller smileearthquakesmen Without alienation, there can be no politics. Arthur Miller alienationpolitics Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day. Arthur Miller successcountrythinking Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, Arthur Miller marrieddataborn I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. Arthur Miller theatreplaythinking The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter]. Arthur Miller laughtercountryart I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important. Arthur Miller unclesmenfather Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him. Arthur Miller couplecountrythinking People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way. Arthur Miller peoplelooksway Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next. Arthur Miller nextdoeart There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream. Arthur Miller takennew-yorkplay A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression. Arthur Miller united-stateswartwo In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another. Arthur Miller dreamgivingway A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. Arthur Miller 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 great. Arthur Miller
