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'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'
I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
'Macbeth' is a show I'm going to do again someday.
My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.
I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'
A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.
I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.
I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.
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.
Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.
I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.
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 can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'
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.
Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
At Rada, I was cast as Lady Macbeth and tried to do it as seriously as I could, but people still started laughing. I just think they find my face too funny.
With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
Personally, I don't want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.
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.
I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.
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.
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 to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.
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.
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.
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.
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?'
I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'
I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary.
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III and Macbeth - we're not afraid of our villains.