“In scenes like these, any man could be Iago.”

“Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.”

“Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.”

“As his wife, Emilia must know Iago better than anybody else. She does not know, any more than the others, that he is malevolent, but she does know that her husband is addicted to practical jokes. What Shakespeare gives us in Iago is a portrait of a practical joker of a peculiarly appalling kind, and perhaps the best way of approaching the play is by a general consideration of the Practical Joker.”

“if I were the Moor I wouldn't want to be Iago.”

“The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.”