Age Quote by Laurence Olivier

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

— Laurence Olivier

There are a lot of good roles I wouldn't have been able to play in my 20s - something like Lady Macbeth, for instance,…

— Tara Fitzgerald

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

— Naseeruddin Shah

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later,…

— Anthony Hopkins

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

— Richard Armitage

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home…

— Alan Cumming

“Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and this scene…

— Allan Massie

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets…

— Roman Polanski

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements…

— Sefi Atta

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

— Abhimanyu Singh

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

— Alan Cumming

After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola…

— Felicity Kendal