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 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 see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
“Życie jest jedynie przelotnym cieniem; żałosnym aktorem, co przez godzinę puszy się i miota na scenie, po czym znika; opowieścią idioty, pełną… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“It was sort of like Macbeth , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo… — Ed Westwick 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
“Too bad it was buried before Shakespeare,” Darren continues. “This stage never saw the likes of Romeo or Macbeth.” I whirl around… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17-… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out… — Ian Mckellen 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
Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and… — Kevin Alejandro 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
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
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
'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
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
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 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
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