 Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? |
| Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. |
| The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. |
| Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. |
| I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action. |
| I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. |
| I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. |
| The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. |
| I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. |
| You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. |
| I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. |
| There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense. |
| I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. |
| I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. |
| I may be getting old, but not foolish. |
| Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. |
| A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. |
| You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. |
| I was always a self-conscious person. |
| I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. |
