Macbeth Quotes

“What, you egg?”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Shakespeare, William

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

— Alan Cumming

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

— Jean Marsh

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

— Richard Armitage

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

— Nicola Walker

“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the…

— William Shakespeare

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

— Naseeruddin Shah

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

— Mannie Fresh

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

— Margaret Thatcher

“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Jess Waid

“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

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

— Olivia d'Abo

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity…

— Marion Cotillard

The biggest thing about 'Lady Macbeth' is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really,…

— Florence Pugh

Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them.…

— Beau Willimon

Ive been wanting to play Macbeth for quite a long time but then I just realised nobody is going to offer me…

— Angus Macfadyen

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth.…

— Marion Cotillard

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

[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

“Then she said, "Thorfinn!" quickly, and moved to him; but had hardly got to his side before he loosed his fingers and…

— Dorothy Dunnett

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should…

— Benjamin Rush

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd…

— William Shakespeare

Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive…

— Ethan Hawke

“My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Neil Gaiman

“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

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

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

“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