457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

I don’t know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

She catches a weakening in herself and downs it. She will not let herself be drowned in the sea that threatens her.

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it.

Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don’t lay on complications that aren’t necessary.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing – his sense of personal dignity.

I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.

She could reach up to the table and take a cookie or a spoon. She could stand at the window and look outside. She could do a lot of things now which she could not do when she was a little baby.

It is as though they stood in a spinning world.