Top 461 Macbeth Essay Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

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

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

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.

I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

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

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.

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

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

There's an honourable tradition of British actors who've gone to Hollywood playing baddies. Part of that is because we grow up with Richard III and Macbeth - we're not afraid of our villains.

At Rada, I was cast as Lady Macbeth and tried to do it as seriously as I could, but people still started laughing. I just think they find my face too funny.

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

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

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

The point of the essay is to change things.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

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

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

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.

Contradictory strands create an essay that's richly ambivalent.

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.

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.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'

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

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

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

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

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

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.

I would definitely want to essay meatier roles in good films.

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

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

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

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.