Act 3 Scene 4 Othello Quotes

In addition, unlike Othello, whose profession of arms is socially honorable, Shylock is a professional usurer who, like a prostitute, has a social function but is an outcast from the community. But, in the play, he acts unprofessionally; he refuses to charge Antonio interest and insists upon making their legal relation that of debtor and creditor, a relation acknowledged as legal by all societies. Several critics have pointed to analogies between the trial scene and the medieval Processus Belial in which Our Lady defends man against the prosecuting Devil who claims the legal right to man's soul. […] But the differences between Shylock and Belial are as important as their similarities. The comic Devil of the mystery play can appeal to logic, to the letter of the law, but he cannot appeal to the heart or to the imagination, and Shakespeare allows Shylock to do both. In his "Hath not a Jew eyes…" speech in Act III, Scene I, he is permitted to appeal to the sense of human brotherhood, and in the trial scene, he is allowed to argue, with a sly appeal to the fear a merchant class has of radical social evolution:

You have among you many a purchased slave
Which like your asses and your dogs and mules,
You use in abject and in slavish parts,

which points out that those who preach mercy and brotherhood as universal obligations limit them in practice and are prepared to treat certain classes of human beings as things. ~ W.H. Auden

But jealous souls will not be answered so.
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealous for they're jealous. It is a monster
Begot upon itself, born on itself. ~ William Shakespeare

There is magic in the web Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4) ~ William Shakespeare

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article.
Othello, Act III, Scene iii ~ William Shakespeare

Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death,
The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?
Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were 't good?
I think she stirs again - No. What's best to do?
If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife -
My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
Oh, insupportable! Oh, heavy hour!
Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe
Should yawn at alteration. ~ William Shakespeare

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

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one. ~ Anton Chekhov

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. ~ Dennis Farina

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

When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real. ~ Judy Geeson

Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone! ~ Catherynne M Valente

I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation. ~ Taylor Hackford

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose. ~ Eamonn Walker

And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello. ~ Aldous Huxley

Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings. ~ Carew Papritz

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before. ~ Michael Shurtleff

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs. ~ Liev Schreiber

Actors love to act all those death scenes. ~ Colin Baker

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent. ~ Annalee Newitz

I personally think that all the scene that you see, love scene, is pretty real, almost 100 percent. ~ Tommy Wiseau

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2] ~ William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ~ William Shakespeare

A man awakes every morning
and instead of reading the newspaper
reads Act V of Othello.
He sips his coffee and is content
that this is the news he needs
as his wife looks on helplessly. ~ B.J. Ward

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written. ~ Leos Carax

Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene. ~ Kim Harrison

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange ... doing the love scene on the barricade. ~ Josh Young

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503) ~ William Shakespeare

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene. ~ Michael Ondaatje

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I ~ William Shakespeare

Have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene? ~ Edan Lepucki

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;
Judge not the play before the play is done:
Her plot has many changes; every day
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play. ~ Francis Quarles

The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses. ~ El-P

So young, my lord, and true. ~ William Shakespeare

In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene. ~ Ben Mendelsohn

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, that's how I get introduced. ~ Ben Nicholas

Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes. ~ Drake Doremus

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is. ~ Kid Rock

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over. ~ Paul Feig

When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up. ~ Benicio Del Toro

A scene," Mary told us, "is a moment when there is some form of tension. A scene leads to the next scene. And a causal connection between scenes is what leads you to the story. A scene should be very clearly developed, and when the action is finished, the scene is over. An anecdote is, 'Oh, I missed the train. You'll never believe what happened ... ' An anecdote leads to nothing. ~ Alice Steinbach

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?' ~ Michael Shurtleff

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) ~ William Shakespeare

DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,
That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!
DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Made to write "whore" upon? ~ William Shakespeare

When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play. ~ Raul Esparza

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry. ~ Kurt Braunohler

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting. ~ Thomas Haden Church

Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

What's more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene. ~ Cobie Smulders

Deep malice makes too deep incision. Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed.
Richard 11, Act 1, Scene 1 ~ William Shakespeare

No scene is ever about the words being spoken. ~ Del Close

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King; ~ William Shakespeare

I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that my agent gave me the wrong scene or lines. They would take pity on me and hand me the right scene. I would act like I had never seen this before - and then do pretty well considering I had already rehearsed it. ~ James Marsden

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - PROSPERO, THE TEMPEST, ACT IV, SCENE 1 ~ Erin Morgenstern

The best scene is the last great scene I did. ~ Rene Auberjonois

And what's he then that says I play the villain? ~ William Shakespeare

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints! ~ Alice Englert

Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural. ~ William Shakespeare

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene. ~ Victor Mature

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) ~ William Shakespeare

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing. ~ Howard Stern

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) ~ William Shakespeare

My Oberon, what visions have I seen!
Methought I was enamored of an ass.
Titania, Act IV, Scene 1, Lines 76-77 ~ William Shakespeare

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process. ~ Lauren Graham

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!
-Posthumus Leonatus
Act V, Scene V ~ William Shakespeare

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene. ~ Ann Leckie

Coleridge's description of Iago's actions as "motiveless malignancy" applies in some degree to all the Shakespearian villains. The adjective motiveless means, firstly, that the tangible gains, if any, are clearly not the principal motive, and, secondly, that the motive is not the desire for personal revenge upon another for a personal injury. Iago himself proffers two reasons for wishing to injure Othello and Cassio. He tells Roderigo that, in appointing Cassio to be his lieutenant, Othello has treated him unjustly, in which conversation he talks like the conventional Elizabethan malcontent. In his soliloquies with himself, he refers to his suspicion that both Othello and Cassio have made him a cuckold, and here he talks like the conventional jealous husband who desires revenge. But there are, I believe, insuperable objections to taking these reasons, as some critics have done, at their face value. ~ W. H. Auden

Sometimes instead of creating a scene it's better to quietly slip out of the scene, practically unseen. It saves a lot of drama, unless of course you're into more drama in your life, in which case, go ahead and make a scene, see what happens. ~ Art Hochberg

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that. ~ Jason Isaacs

In my mother's house there is still God."
Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun ~ Lorraine Hansberry

I really like the Chris-R scene and of course the "you are tearing me apart Lisa" scene. The reason I love the Chris-R scene is because we worked really hard to finish it. It's not just that though, it brings people together. Everyone is one the roof together by the end of the scene. You see the perspectives of the different characters. I feel like with all the connections in this scene that the room connects the entire world ~ Tommy Wiseau

I do believe - that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far! Luke (ACT I, Scene 7) ~ Ian Doescher

[on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point ... storytelling momentum and relevance is. ~ Larry Brooks

When you treat every scene as a holy scene, your life will be holy. ~ Art Hochberg

If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself. ~ Hiroyuki Sanada

I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him. - 3.4.26 ~ William Shakespeare

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void. ~ Madeline Kahn

...Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
Strokes of havoc únselve
The sweet especial scene,
Rural scene, a rural scene,
Sweet especial rural scene. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

My first sex scene - and it was with myself. ~ Judge Reinhold

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. ~ Scott McCloud

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene. ~ Janet Fitch

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene. ~ James Franco

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there. ~ Nina Jacobson

And I'll be sworn 'tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.
---Antonio
(Act III, scene 3, lines 26-27.) ~ William Shakespeare

Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening, pick the relationship, tell us who they are, things like that. ~ Brian Henson

If you don't leave my room this instant," she heard herself say, "I'll make a scene." "Marks, there is nothing in the world I would enjoy more than watching you make a scene. In fact, I'll help you. How shall we start?"
- Catherine & Leo ~ Lisa Kleypas

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it. ~ Edan Lepucki

The jet switched everything, one setting gone and the other there, like a conjuring act. This disorienting and instantaneous change of scene made places seem like channels on TV. ~ Jim Paul

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1) ~ William Shakespeare

Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Act sensibly.
Act sincerely.
Act selflessly.
Act splendidly. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough. ~ Paget Brewster

How does thy honor? Let me lick your shoe,
I'll not serve him; he is not valiant.
---Caliban
(Act III, scene 1, lines 23-24) ~ William Shakespeare

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. ~ Greg Kinnear

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. ~ Philip Larkin

You never have to change your scene because you're always comfortable with evolving. ~ Justin Vernon

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised. ~ Arthur Hiller

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene. ~ Matthew Lewis

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way. ~ F. Murray Abraham