Anna Netrebko Quotes

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

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

I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.

I want to play Lady Macbeth. I have a big chip on my shoulder about Lady Macbeth. People usually play her as this cold, Greek witch, but there's no evidence of that in the text! I think her intentions are pure.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

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.'

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Himmler hates me. Now I am going to bring him down.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

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

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.

I love the characters in 'Wolf of Wall Street' and 'House of Cards.'

I love those books and movies where someone turns because they're blackmailed or they're passed over for promotion.

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

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.

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.