Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

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

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

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

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

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

Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

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.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

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

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

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

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

'Macbeth' is a show I'm going to do again someday.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.