Macbeth Quotes

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

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

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

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.