Macbeth Quotes · Page 2

“I knew this was a jewel of a day that would glow bright for my whole life, brighter than any ruby in…

— Jackie French

“Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

— Florence Pugh

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

— Alan Moore

I did 'Macbeth' in elementary school, but I was never in theater or anything like that.

— Jordyn Woods

“Macbeth in fact. If it be done, ‘twere well it be done quickly. Just”

— David Calder

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

— Bette Midler

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

— Olivia d'Abo

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the…

— Eve Best

“Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and…

— Allan Massie

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When…

— Laurence Olivier

Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after…

— Graham Greene

“Życie jest jedynie przelotnym cieniem; żałosnym aktorem, co przez godzinę puszy się i miota na scenie, po czym znika; opowieścią idioty, pełną…

— William Shakespeare

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When…

— Roman Polanski

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like…

— Edie Campbell

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I…

— Roger Rees

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so…

— Richard Armour

“Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Harpier cries ’Tis time, ’tis time. Round about the cauldron…

— William Shakespeare

I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and…

— Beth Grant

“It was sort of like Macbeth , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been…

— Neil Gaiman

“The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from…

— William Shakespeare

“The story told in these quaint words was, without any doubt, read by Shakespeare and in the alembic of his imagination grew…

— Mary Platt Parmele

“It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's…

— Nic Fields

I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did…

— Charlie Cox

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should…

— Max Beerbohm

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

— John Tiffany

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

— Walter Matthau

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

— Anna Netrebko

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

— Olivia Colman

“You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder." "Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.”

— John Corey Whaley

“life's but a walking shadow ,a poor player who struts and frets his life upon the stage , and then is heard…

— Anonymous

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

— Florence Pugh

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

— Joyce Brothers

“Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today’s newspaper.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

— Laurence Olivier

“She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

— Alan Cumming

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

— Abhimanyu Singh

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the…

— Sefi Atta