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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going… — Marion Cotillard 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
“The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It was sort of like Macbeth , thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 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
I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about… — Finn Wittrock 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 want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998.… — Angela Bassett 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
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
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 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
“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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
“Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
![“Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate…” quote by Richard Armour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/130/richard-armour-14098_associates_shakespeare-who-never-could-think-up-a-p_2382155.png)
![“[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.” quote by James McAvoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/james-mcavoy-4316_believe_macbeth-is-historically-set-in-a-place-d_550668.jpg)
![“[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.” quote by Laurence Olivier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46a/laurence-olivier-11163_age_may-1958-on-playing-macbeth-at-age-30-an_1782352.png)
