Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“life's but a walking shadow ,a poor player who struts and frets his life upon the stage , and then is heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them. — Abhimanyu Singh 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 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
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
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
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
[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
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
“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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her… — Margaret Atwood 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 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
'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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
'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 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
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
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![“In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Because she was teaching, of course, Macbeth, and a number of them had murdered people. The guy who wrote the best paper said, "You do have this, 'Is this…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/441/margaret-atwood-40_cases_in-shakespeare-saved-my-life-author-laur_2156889.jpg)
