I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998.… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do.… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet'… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it… — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
“He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
With every character it's interesting. If you play Macbeth, people have seen and read Shakespeare and see dozens of actors play that… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
I went to a Jesuit school and they did a William Shakespeare play every year. I got to know Shakespeare as parts… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
“Who was it that thus cried? why? worthy thane, you do unbend your noble strength to think so brainsickly of things.Go get… — Shakespeare Copy Share Image
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me,… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What… — Tessa Gratton Copy Share Image
I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why.… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want to play Lady Macbeth. I have a big chip on my shoulder about Lady Macbeth. People usually play her as… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth,… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Then he is dead? Ross: Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow Must not be measured by the worth,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“your son has paid the soldier’s price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade… — Alan Dale Copy Share Image
With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just… — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
Very fun! Here is one I like: Double, dubloe toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. ~ Shakespeare Macbeth Hope you… — Marvin Copy Share Image
'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I… — Talulah Riley Copy Share Image
The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely… — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
“Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth, In Riddles, and Affaires of death; And I the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth.… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
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