11 Quotes By Arthur Miller


It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Arthur Miller on age

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur Miller on experience

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller on home

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller on hope

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
Arthur Miller on hope

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller on knowledge

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller on life

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller on money

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller on politics

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller on strength

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller on truth