Arthur Miller Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

18 Famous Quotes by Arthur Miller
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“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”
Adolescence Quotes
“Without alienation, there can be no politics.”
Alienation Quotes
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
Betrayal Quotes
“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”
Irony Quotes
“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”
Repression Quotes
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
Theater Quotes
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
Hope Quotes
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Now we settle for half and I like it better.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“[About Marilyn Monroe] she was “highly self-destructive”, during our marriage, “all my energy and attention were devoted to trying to help her solve her problems. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much success.””
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.”
Miscellaneous Quotes