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All Quotes by author - Roberto Benigni

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fellini belongs to nature. "

" For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die. "

" I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy. "

" 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. "

" I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them! "

" I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. 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. "

" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy. "

" It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. "

" It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit. "

" I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. "

" Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best. "

" My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. "

" 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. "

" My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. "

" 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. "

" My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States. "

Life Is Beautiful

" Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much. "

" 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! "

" Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. "

Stanley Kubrick

" The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. "

" 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! "

" When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend. "

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