Lady Macbeth Macbeth Quotes

#1. Only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away.

Donna Tartt

#2. I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Ken Kesey

#3. A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

Susan Strasberg

#4. My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

Talulah Riley

#5. How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#6. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

Eve Best

#7. She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

Olivia D'Abo

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

Bette Midler

#10. Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#12. But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.

William Shakespeare

#13. Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

William Shakespeare

#14. Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth

Robert Lynn Asprin

#15. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

William Shakespeare

#16. The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

Ellen Terry

#17. I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

William Shakespeare

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

Max Beerbohm

#19. I'm the world's lightest sleeper. On a bad day, I can make Lady Macbeth look like a raging narcoleptic.

Jodi Taylor

#20. Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Anna Netrebko

#21. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov

#22. If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

William Shakespeare

#23. I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.

Nora Ephron

#24. Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#25. Macbeth:
If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

#26. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#27. I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

Tamara Tunie

#28. 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.

Jack O'Brien

#29. My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.

William Shakespeare

#30. I'm not -
Lady Macbeth
Lucrezia Borgia
Catherine the Great. I am
- a woman doing what she has to do. I am
- the woman you made me.
Elena is at war.

Don Winslow

#31. Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content.

William Shakespeare

#32. I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

Margaret Thatcher

#33. 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

#34. My mother had not acted for ten years. Not since a reviewer wrote that her portrayal of Lady Macbeth put him in mind of an exasperated society hostess burdened with unmannerly guests who had lost the new tennis balls, left the bathrooms in a mess, and finished the gin.

Victoria Clayton

#35. You're like Lady Macbeth without the murder." "Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.

John Corey Whaley