Quotes About Iago From Othello

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

Tim Roth

#2. When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!

Jen Selinsky

#3. When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

Guido Palau

#4. Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

William Shakespeare

#7. I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

Olivia Thirlby

#8. Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

Jerry Cantrell

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

William Shakespeare

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Robert Englund

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

William Shakespeare

#14. It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.

Mary Pipher

#15. Black Swan logic makes what you don't know far more relevant than what you do know.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#16. It is wrong to live under constraint; but no man is constrained to live under constraint.

Seneca.

#17. He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

John Cleland

#18. Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston S. Churchill

#19. Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.

Thomas De Quincey

#20. 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

#21. '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

#22. If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs ... it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.

Newt Gingrich