[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 Copy Share Image
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The biggest thing about 'Lady Macbeth' is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really,… — Florence Pugh Copy Share Image
I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th'… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ive been wanting to play Macbeth for quite a long time but then I just realised nobody is going to offer me… — Angus Macfadyen Copy Share Image
I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth.… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
“Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“english So much to say, so little time. Miss Wilson kept interrupting our chat with her so-called love of Shakespeare. For goodness’… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
“Then she said, "Thorfinn!" quickly, and moved to him; but had hardly got to his side before he loosed his fingers and… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“This tune goes manly. Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready; Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At Rada, I was cast as Lady Macbeth and tried to do it as seriously as I could, but people still started… — Daisy May Cooper Copy Share Image
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 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
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
With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just… — Florence Pugh 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
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
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 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
'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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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'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
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
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