Macbeth Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)