Macbeth Quotes

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

— Andy Serkis

“What, you egg?”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Alan Cumming

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

— William Shakespeare

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

— Nicola Walker

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

— Richard Armitage

“His silver skin laced with his golden blood.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Joanna Page

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

— Ian Mckellen

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

— Kelsey Grammer

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

— Laurence Olivier

“Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today’s newspaper.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

— Joyce Brothers

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

— Florence Pugh

“life's but a walking shadow ,a poor player who struts and frets his life upon the stage , and then is heard…

— Anonymous

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

— Abhimanyu Singh

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

— Alan Cumming

“She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

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

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

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

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

'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the…

— Jonathan Pryce

Very fun! Here is one I like: Double, dubloe toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. ~ Shakespeare Macbeth Hope you…

— Marvin

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just…

— Florence Pugh

I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade…

— Alan Dale

In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her…

— Margaret Atwood

“There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the…

— Lesley Livingston

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals.…

— Sefi Atta

Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try…

— David Suchet

“This tune goes manly. Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready; Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth…

— William Shakespeare

The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on…

— Marion Cotillard

“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

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

— Alan Cumming

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

— Shakespeare, William

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Jean Marsh

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

— Walter Matthau

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

— John Tiffany