Quotes About Iago

#1. 'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

Michelle Dockery

#2. The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?

Alison Owen

#3. I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.

Kevin Durand

#4. In scenes like these, any man could be Iago.

Stephen King

#5. I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.

Henning Mankell

#6. [Exeunt Iago and Attendants.] And, till she come, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood, So justly to your grave ears I'll present How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, And she in mine.

William Shakespeare

#7. A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Tim Roth

#8. Brabantio: "You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator!

William Shakespeare

#9. What do you bring to this enterprise to justify a third of the profits?" "Will," said Iago.

Christopher Moore

#10. if I were the Moor I wouldn't want to be Iago.

William Shakespeare

#11. Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Denis O'Hare

#12. Iago, on the other hand, seems to be malice personified, a manifestation of manifold vice with no discernible vestiges of grace.

Williiam Shakespeare

#13. Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Harold Bloom

#14. Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#15. I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

William Shakespeare

#16. I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

Kyle MacLachlan

#17. The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.

Arjuna Ardagh

#18. Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#19. You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

Ving Rhames

#20. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#21. Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

Catherynne M Valente

#22. Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a pure redeeming ardor. Cordelia exists.

Edward Dowden

#23. Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

Arjuna Ardagh

#24. Iago says, I am not what I am, and for this he is called deceitful, a villain. Odd, isn't it? I have always found him to be the most truthful of Shakespeare's creations. We are none of us who we are.

Kate Walbert

#25. What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

Joan Didion

#26. There's an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.

Tom Hiddleston

#27. Oh, not tonight, good Iago," said Cassio. "I have poor and unhappy brains for drinking. I wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

Christopher Moore

#28. say'st thou, noble heart? RODERIGO What will I do, thinkest thou? IAGO Why, go to bed and sleep. RODERIGO

William Shakespeare

#29. I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Robert Englund

#30. Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.

Rory Kinnear

#31. Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

Frank Capra

#32. Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.

William Shakespeare

#33. When devils will the blackest sins put on
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare

#34. Put money in thy purse.

William Shakespeare

#35. And what's he then that says I play the villain?

William Shakespeare

#36. I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

Catherynne M Valente