On playing Othello - "I didn`t realise how much I hated that play until I agreed to do it. I don`t mind Shakespeare so much, but I really hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking ass, looting, plundering and probably raping th...
Samuel Jackson
On playing Othello - "I didn`t realise how much I hated that play until I agreed to do it. I don`t mind Shakespeare so much, but I really hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking ass, looting, plundering and probably raping th...
Samuel Jackson
[On why he didn`t read the complete play of "Othello" before acting in the film version in which more than half of the dialogue was cut:] "Why should I read all those words that I`m not going to get to say?"
Laurence Fishburne
Probably Shakespeare. I did Othello in college, and Richard III, and those are the two roles I`d like to revisit. Movies? There`s a couple I wish I hadn`t done. I won`t say which ones, but there are a couple of mistakes there. - on what roles he`d like to...
Denzel Washington
[On Orson Welles] I`ve never liked Welles as an actor, because he`s not really an actor. In Hollywood you have two categories, you talk about actors and personalities. Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the...
Ingmar Bergman
I`m not sure how many people were aware that `Othello` was black, so when she did that play, she opened everyone`s eyes, ... Her adaptation of that play was very fresh when she did it. It was something new that people had never seen before, which was typi...
Kelly Ward
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
On playing Othello - "I didn`t realise how much I hated that play until I agreed to do it. I don`t mind Shakespeare so much, but I really hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking ass, looting, plundering and probably raping th...
Samuel Jackson
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