Top 35 Quotes About Lady Macbeth: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Lady Macbeth

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Robert Lynn Asprin

#5. 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

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

Bette Midler

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

Olivia D'Abo

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

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Susan Strasberg

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

Ken Kesey

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tamara Tunie

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

Jodi Taylor

#24. 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