A Quote by David Harewood

When I first played Othello, a reviewer absolutely slaughtered me.

David Harewood

Quote Topics

Absolutely First Me Played Reviewer

Quote Author

David Harewood
English - Actor
Born: December 8, 1965

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

Lupita Nyong'o

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

With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such dignity - he came not from - as he said - not from hate but from honor, from a sense of his own human dignity. And to me, to my mind, there could be no greater character played.

Paul Robeson

After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I feel I have played him well and honorably. I have nothing to prove anymore.'

Laurence Fishburne

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

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!

Timothy Spall

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

James McAvoy

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Tayeb Salih

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Ted Lange

Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.

Joe King

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Kathryn Harrison

There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello - Othello! Whether you like it or not.

Timothy Spall

Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food.

Sharon Gannon

In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.

Anthony DeCurtis

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.

Curtis Sittenfeld

A Quote by David Harewood

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors