#macbeth

Macbeth was the first play I ever read. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#first #i #macbeth #play #read

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

— Alan Cumming

#feels #greatest #greatest challenge #like #macbeth

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

— Jones Very

#hamlet #macbeth #next #realities #those

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#battle #blood #coming #fresh #his

It was sort of like Macbeth, thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations, they had just welcomed Macbeth in and fed him turkey and rice and peas spread out on white china plates on a red-and-white patterned plastic tablecloth -- not to mention sweet potato pudding and spice cabbage -- and encouraged him to take second helpings, and thirds, and then, when Macbeth had declaimed that nay, he was stuffed nigh unto bursting and on his oath could truly eat no more, the witches had pressed upon him their own special island rice pudding and a large slice of Mrs. Bustamonte's famous pineapple upside-down cake, it would have been exactly like Macbeth. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#macbeth #humor

The merciless Macdonald (Worthy to be a rebel, — for, to that, The multiplying villainies of nature Do swarm upon him) from the Western Isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Showed like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak: For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion, Carv'd out his passage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nature

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. ↗

— Tom Baker

#ever #got #i #i can #laughs

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#macbeth #shakespeare #ambition

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

— Joyce Brothers

#go #had #juliet #macbeth #never

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

#host #hostess #lady #macbeth #mankind