<P> The role was first played by Richard Burbage at the Globe Theatre . John Westland Marston notes that the actors of his time often played the role with "contemptuous superiority"; by contrast his favourite Malvolio, William Ferrin, performed it with "lofty condescension". Other actors famed for their performance of Malvolio include Sir Alec Guinness, Henry Irving, E.H. Sothern, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Ainley, Sir John Gielgud, Simon Russell Beale, Maurice Evans, Ken Dodd, Richard Briers, Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Sir Derek Jacobi . Richard Wilson took on the role for the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2009 production . In 2012, Stephen Fry assumed the role at Shakespeare's Globe . In 2017, actress Tamsin Greig portrayed a female version of the character (renamed Malvolia) in Simon Godwin's revival of the play at the Royal National Theatre . </P> <P> Some Shakespearean scholars hypothesize that the character Malvolio was inspired by Puritan landowner Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, who was involved in a well known court case against many of his Yorkshire neighbours in the 1600s . Hoby sued his neighbours when they came uninvited to his house, drank, played cards, mocked his religion, and threatened to rape his wife . Hoby won damages in the case, which may have influenced the scene in Twelfth Night when Malvolio interrupts Sir Toby's late - night reveling . </P> <Ul> <Li> "(S) ome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon' em ." (Act II, Scene v; although Malvolio says this, he does so while reading from the letter that Maria wrote). </Li> <Li> "My masters, are you mad?" </Li> </Ul> <Li> "(S) ome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon' em ." (Act II, Scene v; although Malvolio says this, he does so while reading from the letter that Maria wrote). </Li>

Who said some are born great some achieve greatness