#macbeth

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. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#back #bloody #cell #cell phone #center

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#attracts #audiences #easy #exciting #great

Screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courage

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#arms #battle #blood #came #coming

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

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

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

'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#brother #coming #coming home #ever #fact

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #men