Macbeth Quotes

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

— Andy Serkis

“What, you egg?”

— William Shakespeare

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

— Ian Mckellen

'Macbeth' is a show I'm going to do again someday.

— Kelsey Grammer

I don't really want to go on and play Lady Macbeth.

— Joanna Page

I don't want to do Lady Macbeth or Joan of Arc.

— Jean Marsh

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

— William Shakespeare

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

— Alan Cumming

“I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2]”

— Shakespeare, William

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

— Nicola Walker

“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

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

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

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

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands…

— LaTanya Richardson

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

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

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me,…

— Alan Cumming

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

“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

“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

I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about…

— Finn Wittrock

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

“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

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

“So fair and foul a day I have not seen.”

— William Shakespeare

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

— Alan Cumming

“His silver skin laced with his golden blood.”

— William Shakespeare

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

— Richard Armitage

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

— Jackie French

“Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.” Macbeth. Act III Sc. 4, Line 119”

— Jess Waid