Ian McKellen on Macbeth: Performing Shakespeare (Shakespeare on Stage)

by Ian McKellen

But it’s almost as if Shakespeare thought that to be a warrior was to be fulfilled as a man, and yet he realises that the warriors themselves don’t feel fulfilled, they want more. I think he’s saying if you’re prepared to kill somebody, well, you’ve gone off the rails. And they make dreadful kings, all of them, these soldiers.