Macbeth Man Quotes

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

Laurence Olivier

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

William Shakespeare

#3. I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none

William Shakespeare

#4. 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.

David Suchet

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

Alan Cumming

#6. What bloody man is that, sir?" I tossed the paper in the grate, though there was no fire on this warm summer day. "Bartholomew, you are quoting from Macbeth, did you know? King Duncan in the first scene, which is ominous. He died rather horribly soon after.

Ashley Gardner

#7. your son has paid the soldier's price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he proved that he was a man by fighting like one, he died"
Macbeth
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

#8. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

John Masefield

#9. The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy

William Shakespeare

#10. The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout the play is that most selfish of all concerns: to get a good night's sleep.

Mary McCarthy

#11. I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.

Roman Polanski