Quotes About Iago In Othello

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

Robert Englund

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

Doris Lessing

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

Tim Roth

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

William Shakespeare

#8. These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all.

Nicole Krauss

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

William Shakespeare

#10. We say we're stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

Eric Schmidt

#11. Nobody likes for the hero to walk away.

Cathie Pelletier

#12. Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Phil McGraw

#13. Looking at them words going down on this paper right this minim I know there aint no such thing there aint no only my self you all ways have every 1 and every thing on your back.

Russell Hoban

#14. If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction.

Anthony Powell

#15. Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.

Christopher Poindexter

#16. 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

#17. How is it that you can see your enemies so clearly and never your friends?

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#18. Just because I'm on the lookout for an ass kicking doesn't mean I'm actively seeking one out. It's called covering all your bases.

J.A. Saare

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

William Shakespeare

#20. Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

Pearl Bailey

#21. The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

John Berger

#22. If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Anais Nin

#23. If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'

Martin Donovan

#24. '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