Character Quote by Laurence Olivier

[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,…

— Laurence Olivier

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

— Naseeruddin Shah

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

— Mannie Fresh

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

— Abhimanyu Singh

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

— Andy Serkis

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

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they…

— Marion Cotillard

“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

“Macbeth in fact. If it be done, ‘twere well it be done quickly. Just”

— David Calder

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

— John Tiffany

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

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

— Alan Cumming