Othello Washington Quotes & Sayings

What is it about you that makes you able to love creatures that no one else can? — Ali Benjamin

Personalities don't love.
They want something. — Byron Katie

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

A good heart cannot lye — George Herbert

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

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that. — Ben Mendelsohn

I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine. — Yangsze Choo

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. — Edward Dahlberg

I was raised in a religion that I never felt embraced me. That wasn't her fault. I had this amazing childhood. My mother is of her generation. If I'm going to ask her to accept me exactly as I am, I have to give her the same. She has read part of the book, but my sisters told her which chapters not to read! — Leslie Jordan

O, lawdy, seems you don't got good radar when it comes to pickin' 'em," Elvira muttered.
"No, her radar is beyond not good. Her radar is also not malfunctioning. It's straight out broke," Martha agreed and I was wondering if perhaps Elvira and Martha were not such a good match. Denver was relatively peaceful. I'd never heard of riots or sieges or militant hostile takeovers of land and I was foreseeing this if these two got together and rallied the female population of the Denver Metropolitan Area as a protest to shelter all women against dickhead assholes. — Kristen Ashley

You grow up ... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well. — Patrick Kane

I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'. — Carrie Jones

Every actor turns everything round to their character. — Ruth Wilson