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I am no Othello, Othello was a lie. -- Tayeb Salih
A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello. -- Tim Roth
No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce. -- Joss Whedon
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. -- Brand Blanshard
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.' -- Malorie Blackman
My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus. -- Lenny Henry
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride. -- Agatha Christie
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. -- Ted Lange
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"? -- Emily Dickinson
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii -- William Shakespeare
I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful. -- Douglas Booth
I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona. -- Shari Sebbens
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative. -- Joseph Furphy
I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.' -- Robert Englund
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup. -- Jamie Farr
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. -- Denzel Washington
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
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it. -- Andrew Davies
Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it. -- Andrew Davies
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is. -- James Avery
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera. -- George Bernard Shaw
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III. -- Ving Rhames
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
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
Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose. -- Eamonn Walker
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. -- Arthur Koestler
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
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
Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever. -- Lesley Manville
I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it. -- Ian Doescher
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl. -- Franny Billingsley
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
I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. -- David Oyelowo
There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian. -- David Henry Hwang
Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.' -- John Logan

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