Macbeth Quotes - page 2

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. (Andrew Wyeth)
I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death. View quote
Alan Dale
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life. View quote
Anna Chancellor
Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth. View quote
Anna Netrebko
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man. View quote
David Suchet
'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience. View quote
Dario Argento
And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?' View quote
Liev Schreiber
If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood. View quote
Mark Strong
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' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain. View quote
Damien Chazelle
I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place. View quote
Kevin Alejandro
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen. (Olivia Colman)
I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'. View quote
Olivia d'Abo
I have twice seen Macready act; once in Macbeth and once in Othello. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Benn, Shore and Foot were like the three witches in Macbeth. View quote
Edward Heath
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful. View quote
André Breton
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. View quote
Tom Baker
English is a language of mass destruction. Lady Macbeth is a queen of mass destruction. Lear is a king of mass destruction. Hamlet is a prince of mass destruction. Shakespeare is a bard of mass destruction. And Moby Dick is a whale of mass destruction. Why are you a culture of death and destruction? Why do you obliterate villages, cities, and civilizations with your language of mass destruction? Is the destruction worth the destruction? For what purpose did you destroy my language? To impose the sovereignty of your rule of law with weapons of mass destruction-to then say: --I offer you my lifesaver. Now, we can communicate in the same language. English only, please. View quote
Giannina Braschi
I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing. View quote
Charlie Cox
Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth. View quote
Arabella Weir
I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron. View quote
Charles Dickens
Macbeth to Witches What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't. (William Shakespeare)
Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief n. View quote
William Shakespeare
Scholars are still in search of the exact meaning of certain speeches in each of Shakespeare's great tragedies - and we should like to assume that those who saw these plays for the first time did not have perfect understanding of all of the lines - but so great was Shakespeare's power to conceive of action from which thought and feeling can be readily inferred that all of us know Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth more intimately than we know many men whose remarks we understand perfectly. View quote
Norman Maclean