Roberto Benigni quotes

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die. (Roberto Benigni)
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. View quote
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The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. View quote
Roberto Benigni
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. View quote
Roberto Benigni
'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular. View quote
Roberto Benigni
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. View quote
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I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. View quote
Roberto Benigni
The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself. View quote
Roberto Benigni
I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film. View quote
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My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. View quote
Roberto Benigni
Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best. (Roberto Benigni)
Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way. View quote
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Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music. View quote
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The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. View quote
Roberto Benigni
It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit. View quote
Roberto Benigni
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. View quote
Roberto Benigni
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. View quote
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My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. View quote
Roberto Benigni
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. View quote
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Fellini belongs to nature. View quote
Roberto Benigni
I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them! (Roberto Benigni)
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! View quote
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To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. View quote
Roberto Benigni
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy. View quote
Roberto Benigni
When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful! View quote
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