A Quote by Tayeb Salih

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Tayeb Salih

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Tayeb Salih
Sudanese - Writer
July 12, 1929 - February 18, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Roth

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

David Harewood

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

Eric McCormack

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.